Studies of the limnology, fish populations, and fishery of Turquoise Lake, Colorado - 1979-80

Technical Report · Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:6779909

Nesler, T P

Turquoise Lake is one of the primary storage reservoirs in the Fryingpan-Arkansas Water Project and provides supplementary water by conduit to the MT. Elbert Forebay-Twin Lakes system for pump-back storage power generation. The reservoir may be characterized as a dimictic, cold-water lake that is well oxygenated, relatively unbuffed, and slightly acidic. The lake may be classified as oligotrophic on the basis of total dissolved solids, algal nutrients (N-P), and chlorophyll concentrations. Depletion of dissolved oxygen occurs regularly in the hypolimnion during late summer and late winter. Turquoise Lake is limnologically similar to Twin Lakes (Colo.) in most respects. Data contained in this report are useful to those interested in the limnology of high mountain lakes, including physical-chemical parameters, chlorophyll, plankton, and fish populations. Turquoise Lake provides source water to the Mt. Elbert forebay. Thus the baseline data provided here will be helpful in assessing the effects of pumped-storage powerplant operation on the limnology of Twin Lakes, Colo.

• Research Organization: Colorado Div. of Wildlife, Denver (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6779909
• Report Number(s): PB-83-110072
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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13 HYDRO ENERGY
25 ENERGY STORAGE
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
LAKES
LIMNOLOGY
PUMPED STORAGE
AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
COLORADO
DISSOLVED GASES
NITROGEN
OXYGEN
PHOSPHORUS
PLANKTON
SALMON
TROUT
ANADROMOUS FISHES
ANIMALS
AQUATIC ORGANISMS
ECOSYSTEMS
ELEMENTS
ENERGY STORAGE
FEDERAL REGION VIII
FISHES
FLUIDS
GASES
NONMETALS
NORTH AMERICA
SOLUTES
STORAGE
SURFACE WATERS
USA
VERTEBRATES
130600* - Hydro Energy- Environmental Aspects
250300 - Energy Storage- Pumped Hydro- (-1989)
520100 - Environment
Aquatic- Basic Studies- (-1989)