Characterization of water quality for streams in the southern Yampa River basin, northwestern Colorado. Water Resources Investigation
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:5668542
Historically, the Yampa River basin in northwestern Colorado has been an area of coal-mining development. Coal mining generally has been developed in the southern part of the basin and at lower elevations. The purpose of the report is to characterize the stream water quality by summarizing selected major dissolved constituents for the streams that drain the southern part of the Yampa River basin. Characterization is done initially by providing a statistical summary of the constituents for individual water-quality sites in the study area. These statistical summaries can be used to help assess water-quality within specified stream reaches. Water-quality data are available for sites on most perennial streams in the study area, and these data provide the best information about the immediate stream reach. Water-quality data from all sites are combined into regions, and linear-regression equations between dissolved constituents and specific conductance are calculated. Such equations provide an estimate of the water-quality relations within these regions. The equations also indicate an increase in error as individual sites are combined.
- Research Organization:
- Geological Survey, Denver, CO (United States). Water Resources Div.
- OSTI ID:
- 5668542
- Report Number(s):
- PB-92-157114/XAB; USGS/WRI--88-4204
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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