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USGS NAWQ biologists seining for fish and macroinvertibrates in Lone Tree Creek near Kersey, Colorado, 2002.

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Multi-Discipline Projects in Colorado

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The USGS Colorado Water Science Center conducts hydrologic projects that address a wide variety of water-resources issues, including water supply, ground-water contamination, nutrient loading in streams, effects of land use on water quality, and basic hydrologic data collection. This page lists the multi-discipline projects currently underway.

Abandoned-Mine-Land Initiative · Effects of mining · Alpine/subalpine watersheds · Irrigation · Modeling · Multi-Discipline

Multi-Discipline

Abandoned-Mine-Land Initiative

Upper Animas River Basin Abandoned Mine Lands Initiative

Effects of mining

Relationship of Turquoise Lake Levels to Mine Tunnel Flow in the Sugarloaf Mining District 2003-2005
Upper Arkansas Toxic-Substances Hydrology
Sources of Metal Loading to the Lake Fork from Turquoise Lake to the confluence with the Arkansas River

Alpine/subalpine watersheds

Effects of Energy Production Emissions on Colorado Lakes
Water, Energy, and Biogeochemical budgets in alpine/subalpine watersheds
Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative: Rocky Mountain region
Water-Quality Sampling at Five Hydrologic Benchmark Stations in the Western United States
Rocky Mountain Regional Snowpack Chemistry Monitoring Study Area: High-elevation sites near the Continental Divide in Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico

Irrigation

Measurements of Irrigation Canal Seepage Losses Below Trinidad Dam, Las Animas County, Colorado, 2000-2003

Modeling

Simulated Effects of Proposed Southern Delivery System Alternatives on Hydrodynamics and Water Quality of Pueblo Reservoir Using a Two-Dimensional Hydrodynamic and Water-Quality Model, Pueblo, Colorado
One-Dimensional Transport with Inflow and Storage (OTIS): A Solute Transport Model for Streams and Rivers
MODFLOW/MODFLOWP Integration
Modifications to the Fountain Creek transit-loss accounting program to account for Fryingpan-Arkansas water return flows
Development of methods to determine transit losses for return flows of imported water in Monument and Fountain Creeks,and revision of an existing transit-loss accounting program for Fountain Creek, El Paso and Pueblo Counties, Colorado

Multi-Discipline

Biosolids, soils, crops, ground water, and streambed sediments in the vicinity of a biosolids-application area near Deer Trail, Colorado

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