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Map showing the Upper and Lower Colorado River Basin, and adjacent areas supplied by Colorado River water. The Colorado River Basin consists of 246,000 square miles (640,000 km 2), making it the seventh largest drainage basin in North America. [1] About 238,600 square miles (618,000 km 2), or 97 percent of the basin, is in the United States. [40]
The Green River Basin below the confluence with the Yampa River Basin, but excluding the Yampa and White River Basins. Colorado and Utah. 14,400 sq mi (37,000 km 2) HUC1406: 1407 Upper Colorado–Dirty Devil subregion: The Colorado River Basin below the confluence with the Green River Basin to the Lee Ferry compact point, but excluding the San ...
The chart is arranged by tributary and area of the drainage basin. [1] The names of the 17 Colorado rivers with a drainage basin of more than 10,000 square kilometers (3,900 sq mi) are shown in bold. Oceans and streams outside of Colorado are shown in italics. Pacific Ocean. Gulf of California. Colorado River [b] Green River. Yampa River 21,506 ...
Last weekend’s storms also left a good deal of snow across Colorado, meaning the snow-water equivalent in each of that state’s eight river basins is now above normal for the first time this ...
Snowpack is an accumulation of snow that compresses with time and melts seasonally, often at high elevation or high latitude. [1] [2] Snowpacks are an important water resource that feed streams and rivers as they melt, sometimes leading to flooding. Snowpacks provide water to down-slope communities for drinking and agriculture. [3]
The Arapaho National Recreation Area (ANRA) is a United States national recreation area located near the headwaters of the Colorado River in north central Colorado adjacent to Rocky Mountain National Park. ANRA is under the jurisdiction of the Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest. ANRA contains five lakes in the upper Colorado River Valley: Lake ...
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The seven U.S. states that draw water from the Colorado River basin are suggesting new ways to determine how the increasingly scarce resource is divvied up when the ...
The Aurora Police Department in Colorado reported 25 to 30 vehicles were stranded on the E-470 toll road east of Denver. [26] Several interstate highways including Interstate 25, Interstate 70, Interstate 76 and Interstate 80 shut down. [3] Nearly 24,000 homes and businesses in Colorado remained without electricity on March 15. [26]