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  • Data for UCOL sites are available from the Web based National Water Information System

  • Data for the UCOL and other NAWQA study units are available from the Web based NAWQA data warehouse

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UCOL Data sets that are available at this time are:

Excel files of ecological data (click on indicated year to download file)

Please note there may be mutiple worksheets in a file


Site
Fish

Algae
(periphyton)
Invertebrates
Colorado River at State Line
2002 from NAWQA data base
2003-field form
 
2004-field form
   
       
Dry Fork of Roan Creek

2002 no sample due to drought
2003-no fish
  
2004-no fish
    
       

Please see NAWQA protocols for description of ecological data collection methods

Excel files of the algae data presented as the appendices of U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-266, Algal Data from Selected Sites in the Upper Colorado River Basin, Colorado, Water Years 1996-97; by Mize, S.V., and Deacon, J.R.

Excel data file of Appendix A: right click here and "Save Link as"
Excel data file of Appendix B: right click here and "Save Link as"
Excel data file of Appendix C: right click here and "Save Link as"

See the report for information about this data

The pdf of the report is available in the "Publications Section".

An Excel file of the reservoir core data presented as the Appendix of U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4022, Identification of Water-Quality Trends Using Sediment Cores from Dillon Reservoir, Summit County, Colorado; by Greve, A.I., Spahr, N.E., Van Metre, P.C., and Wilson, J.T.

Excel data file of Appendix: right click here and "Save Link as"
See the report Appendix for units, reporting levels, and other information about this data.

The pdf of the report is available in the "Publications Section".

Wynn, K.H., and Spahr, N.E., 1997, Nitrogen and Phosphorus data for surface water in the Upper Colorado River Basin, Colorado, 1980-94, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-233. The data set contains 4,927 samples from 123 sites located in the Upper Colorado River Basin. The published report includes the data set files on 3.5 floppy diskette.

These data are also available as ASCII tab-delimited flat files that can be downloaded (WARNING 1.1 meg file may take a LONG TIME TO DOWNLOAD BECAUSE OF ITS SIZE). Retrieve raw data file...(RIGHT button CLICK and "Save Link as") Once the data have been aquired it can then be imported into a spreadsheet program of the users choice for viewing and analysis.

There is also an associated table (ASCII) that provides parameter code listings for the data set which must also be downloaded by Right Clicking here (RIGHT button CLICK and "Save Link as") (2700 kbytes).

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Last Modified: 2006-02-08