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Water Quality and Limnology On the Colorado River

August 24, 2018
by John Weisheit

A spring in the upper Colorado River arm of Lake Powell. This spring has emissions of methane and hydrogen sulfide. Also note the white precipitates of unknown chemicals on exposed reservoir sediment.

A spring in the upper Colorado River arm of Lake Powell. This spring has emissions of methane and hydrogen sulfide. Also note the white precipitates of unknown chemicals on exposed reservoir sediment.

WEBSITES

The Water Report. Water Rights, Water Quality and Water Solutions

NEWS

Groundwater Contamination at Wyoming Power Plants. Water and Wastes Management.
Nevada Must Take Environmental Protection Into Its Own Hands Now. Editorial Board Las Vegas Sun.
How Drought and Other Extremes Impact Water Pollution, Berkeley Lab.
Study Will Look at Mining Pollution at Lake Powell. Desert News.
Utah and Feds Study Lake Powell Pollution After Gold King Mine Spill. Associated Press.
Invitation to Reporters to View SedimentCore Collection at Lake Powell. USGS.l

LEGISLATION

H.R. 1353 - Introduced by Representative Raul Grijalva in 2013

ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE DOCUMENTS

1974 - DEIS for Las Vegas Wash/Bay Pollution Abatement Project. EPA.

WEBSITES

San Juan River And San Juan Arm of Lake Powell

San Juan Watershed Monitoring Program. EPA.
San JuanWatershed Project. Utah DWQ.
Lake Powell Coring Project. Utah DWQ.

Adaptive Management Program for Glen Canyon Dam

Working Group and Technical Working Group

Lake Mead National Recreation Area

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area

Southern Nevada Water Authority

DOCUMENTS

Lower Basin

1971 - Pollution Affecting Las Vegas Wash, Lake Mead and the Lower Colorado River. EPA.
1980 - Nutrient Interactions Reservoirs Colorado River. Paulson.
1981 - Chemical and Biological Structure of Lake Mead Sediments. Prentki.
1983 - Influence of Lake Powell Suspended Sediment-Phosphorus Dynamics, Colorado River Inflow Lake Mead. Evans.
2007 - Water Quality Constituents. USBR DEIS Interim Guidelines.
2015 - Mercury and Selenium Accumulation in Colorado River Food Web, Grand Canyon. Walters et al.
2018 - Conceptual and Numerical Models for Dissolved Solids, Colorado River, Hoover Dam to Imperial Dam & Appendix 01.xlsx & Appendix 02.xlsx
2018 - Comprehensive Review of Fill Lake Mead First Initiative. Carey.

Upper Basin

Bibliography of Water Quality in the Upper Colorado River Basin. USGS.
1965 - Water Resources of the Upper Colorado River; (archived). USGS.
1974 - Geochemistry of Lake Powell. Reynolds.
1975 - Mercury in the Lake Powell Ecosystem.
1975 - Bacterial Contaiminations of Lake Powell Water: An Assessment of the Problem. Kidd.
1976 - The Effect of Lake Powell on Dissolved Silica Cycling in the Colorado River.
1978 - Analysis of Metallic Cations in the Lake Powell Ecosystem and Tributaries. Kidd.
1992 -Lake Powell Water Quality Report. Tinkler.
1996 - Physical and Chemical Characteristics of Lake Powell at the Forebay and Outflows of Glen Canyon Dam, Northeastern Arizona, 1990-91. Hart.
2005 - Sediment Chemistry of Colorado River at Delta of Lake Powell. Hart.
2014 - Colorado River Selenium Draft; App A; App B
2015- Historical Physical and Chemical Data of Water at Lake Powell and Glen Canyon Dam Releases, 1964 to 2013. Vernieu.
2017 - Review of Salinity Control Program. Forum.
2018 -Temperature data for proposed temperature control device at Glen Canyon Dam. Adaptive Management Program.
2018 - San Juan Watershed Program; a Lake Powell sediment coring analysis. UDWQ.

SEDIMENT

See: Archive of sediment documents HERE

1960 - Comprehensive study of Lake Mead sediment and hydrology. US Geological Survey and Bureau of Reclamation.

DATA

Quality of Water Colorado River Basin. USGS.

LEGAL REVIEWS

1989 - Water Quality and Water Rights in Colorado. MacDonnell.
1991 - Controlling Water Use: The Unfinished Business of Water QualityProtection. Getches.
1991- The Connection Between Water Quality and Water Quantity. Wilcher.

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