By Colorado Water Science Center May 17, 2007
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Changes in land and water use associated with population growth and agricultural practices within the Arkansas RiverBasin are likely to affect water-quality on a local and, possibly, a basin-wide scale. To manage the limited waterresources in the basin most effectively it is important to understand the processes that affect water quality within the basin and how future changes in land and water use may affect these processes.
Presently there is no basin-wide decisionsupport system model in place to allow water managers to evaluate the affects of future changes in land and water use on water quality. This study will begin to lay the framework for a basin-wide decision support system model by summarizingexisting water-quality data and identifying priority water-quality issues, gaps in existing data, and data and analyticaltools needed to address priority water-quality issues.
Evaluate hydrogeologic processes including effects of stream-aquifer interaction on elevated constituentloadings in surface water, particularly for selenium and uranium and focused on the Fountain Creek Valley from Pinon,Colorado, to the confluence of Fountain Creek with the Arkansas River at Pueblo, Colorado.
Objectives
- Determine critical stream reaches where stream-aquifer interactions have a pronounced effect on water quality, and
- determine the source areas for selected constituents.
- For critical reaches, determine the dominant processes affecting selected constituents.
- develop methods and tools to quantitatively simulate the effects that changes in water uses/operations and land usesmay have on water quality, and
- utilize the knowledge gained by these efforts to help resource managers identify solutions to improve water quality andminimize/mitigate potential adverse impacts that could result from changes in land- and water-use/operation.
Arkansas Water-Quality Data Program
Short Title: QW Data Program Project Chief: Dwight Lasker Cooperators: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Little Rock District, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, Arkansas Natural Resources Commission, Arkansas Geological Survey, Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Central Arkansas Water, Hot Springs Village Project Time Frame: 1962...
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Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center
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Arkansas Water-Quality Data Program
Short Title: QW Data Program Project Chief: Dwight Lasker Cooperators: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Little Rock District, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, Arkansas Natural Resources Commission, Arkansas Geological Survey, Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Central Arkansas Water, Hot Springs Village Project Time Frame: 1962...
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Identifying Changes in Background Water-Quality Conditions, Arkansas River and Fountain Creek, Colorado
Demands for water are projected to increase in the Lower Arkansas River Basin as the population continues to grow. Strategies to meet those demands include continued operation of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project water, enlargement of Pueblo and Turquoise Reservoirs, and various conservation measures; the overall strategy is defined in the Preferred Storage Options Plan (PSOP: see the Southeastern...
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Colorado Water Science Center
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Identifying Changes in Background Water-Quality Conditions, Arkansas River and Fountain Creek, Colorado
Demands for water are projected to increase in the Lower Arkansas River Basin as the population continues to grow. Strategies to meet those demands include continued operation of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project water, enlargement of Pueblo and Turquoise Reservoirs, and various conservation measures; the overall strategy is defined in the Preferred Storage Options Plan (PSOP: see the Southeastern...
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Arkansas River Water-Quality Data
The Arkansas River Basin drains an area of 24,904 square miles of southeastern Colorado. Like other basins on the Front Range, the Arkansas Basin has experienced growth and is expected to have significant increases in growth in the future. Demands on the limited water resources also will increase as changes in water storage, water releases, and/or transfer of waters within or outside of the basin...
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Colorado Water Science Center
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Arkansas River Water-Quality Data
The Arkansas River Basin drains an area of 24,904 square miles of southeastern Colorado. Like other basins on the Front Range, the Arkansas Basin has experienced growth and is expected to have significant increases in growth in the future. Demands on the limited water resources also will increase as changes in water storage, water releases, and/or transfer of waters within or outside of the basin...
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Below are publications associated with this project.
Characterization of streamflow, water quality, and instantaneous dissolved solids, selenium, and uranium loads in selected reaches of the Arkansas River, southeastern Colorado, 2009-2010
As a result of continued water-quality concerns in the Arkansas River, including metal contamination from historical mining practices, potential effects associated with storage and movement of water, point- and nonpoint-source contamination, population growth, storm-water flows, and future changes in land and water use, the Arkansas River Basin Regional Resource Planning Group (RRPG) developed a s
Authors
Tamara Ivahnenko, Roderick F. Ortiz, Robert W. Stogner, Sr.
By
Water Resources Mission Area, Colorado Water Science Center
Occurrence and distribution of dissolved solids, selenium, and uranium in groundwater and surface water in the Arkansas River Basin from the headwaters to Coolidge, Kansas, 1970-2009
In 2007, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with City of Aurora, Colorado Springs Utilities, Colorado Water Conservation Board, Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District, Pueblo Board of Water Works, Southeastern Colorado Water Activity Enterprise, Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District, and Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District began a retrospective evaluation
Authors
Lisa D. Miller, Kenneth R. Watts, Roderick F. Ortiz
By
Water Resources Mission Area, Colorado Water Science Center
Hydrogeology and quality of ground water in the upper Arkansas River basin from Buena Vista to Salida, Colorado, 2000-2003
The upper Arkansas River Basin between Buena Vista and Salida, Colorado, is a downfaulted basin, the Buena Vista-Salida structural basin, located between the Sawatch and Mosquito Ranges. The primary aquifers in the Buena Vista-Salida structural basin consist of poorly consolidated to unconsolidated Quaternary-age alluvial and glacial deposits and Tertiary-age basin-fill deposits. Maximum thickness
Authors
Kenneth R. Watts
By
Colorado Water Science Center
Water-quality variations and trends in Monument and Fountain Creeks, El Paso and Pueblo counties, Colorado, water years 1976-88
No abstract available.
Authors
B. C. Ruddy
Below are partners associated with this project.
Changes in land and water use associated with population growth and agricultural practices within the Arkansas RiverBasin are likely to affect water-quality on a local and, possibly, a basin-wide scale. To manage the limited waterresources in the basin most effectively it is important to understand the processes that affect water quality within the basin and how future changes in land and water use may affect these processes.
Presently there is no basin-wide decisionsupport system model in place to allow water managers to evaluate the affects of future changes in land and water use on water quality. This study will begin to lay the framework for a basin-wide decision support system model by summarizingexisting water-quality data and identifying priority water-quality issues, gaps in existing data, and data and analyticaltools needed to address priority water-quality issues.
Evaluate hydrogeologic processes including effects of stream-aquifer interaction on elevated constituentloadings in surface water, particularly for selenium and uranium and focused on the Fountain Creek Valley from Pinon,Colorado, to the confluence of Fountain Creek with the Arkansas River at Pueblo, Colorado.
Objectives
- Determine critical stream reaches where stream-aquifer interactions have a pronounced effect on water quality, and
- determine the source areas for selected constituents.
- For critical reaches, determine the dominant processes affecting selected constituents.
- develop methods and tools to quantitatively simulate the effects that changes in water uses/operations and land usesmay have on water quality, and
- utilize the knowledge gained by these efforts to help resource managers identify solutions to improve water quality andminimize/mitigate potential adverse impacts that could result from changes in land- and water-use/operation.
Below are other science projects associated with this project.
Arkansas Water-Quality Data Program
Short Title: QW Data Program Project Chief: Dwight Lasker Cooperators: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Little Rock District, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, Arkansas Natural Resources Commission, Arkansas Geological Survey, Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Central Arkansas Water, Hot Springs Village Project Time Frame: 1962...
By
Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center
link
Arkansas Water-Quality Data Program
Short Title: QW Data Program Project Chief: Dwight Lasker Cooperators: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Little Rock District, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, Arkansas Natural Resources Commission, Arkansas Geological Survey, Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Central Arkansas Water, Hot Springs Village Project Time Frame: 1962...
Learn More
Identifying Changes in Background Water-Quality Conditions, Arkansas River and Fountain Creek, Colorado
Demands for water are projected to increase in the Lower Arkansas River Basin as the population continues to grow. Strategies to meet those demands include continued operation of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project water, enlargement of Pueblo and Turquoise Reservoirs, and various conservation measures; the overall strategy is defined in the Preferred Storage Options Plan (PSOP: see the Southeastern...
By
Colorado Water Science Center
link
Identifying Changes in Background Water-Quality Conditions, Arkansas River and Fountain Creek, Colorado
Demands for water are projected to increase in the Lower Arkansas River Basin as the population continues to grow. Strategies to meet those demands include continued operation of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project water, enlargement of Pueblo and Turquoise Reservoirs, and various conservation measures; the overall strategy is defined in the Preferred Storage Options Plan (PSOP: see the Southeastern...
Learn More
Arkansas River Water-Quality Data
The Arkansas River Basin drains an area of 24,904 square miles of southeastern Colorado. Like other basins on the Front Range, the Arkansas Basin has experienced growth and is expected to have significant increases in growth in the future. Demands on the limited water resources also will increase as changes in water storage, water releases, and/or transfer of waters within or outside of the basin...
By
Colorado Water Science Center
link
Arkansas River Water-Quality Data
The Arkansas River Basin drains an area of 24,904 square miles of southeastern Colorado. Like other basins on the Front Range, the Arkansas Basin has experienced growth and is expected to have significant increases in growth in the future. Demands on the limited water resources also will increase as changes in water storage, water releases, and/or transfer of waters within or outside of the basin...
Learn More
Below are publications associated with this project.
Characterization of streamflow, water quality, and instantaneous dissolved solids, selenium, and uranium loads in selected reaches of the Arkansas River, southeastern Colorado, 2009-2010
As a result of continued water-quality concerns in the Arkansas River, including metal contamination from historical mining practices, potential effects associated with storage and movement of water, point- and nonpoint-source contamination, population growth, storm-water flows, and future changes in land and water use, the Arkansas River Basin Regional Resource Planning Group (RRPG) developed a s
Authors
Tamara Ivahnenko, Roderick F. Ortiz, Robert W. Stogner, Sr.
By
Water Resources Mission Area, Colorado Water Science Center
Occurrence and distribution of dissolved solids, selenium, and uranium in groundwater and surface water in the Arkansas River Basin from the headwaters to Coolidge, Kansas, 1970-2009
In 2007, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with City of Aurora, Colorado Springs Utilities, Colorado Water Conservation Board, Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District, Pueblo Board of Water Works, Southeastern Colorado Water Activity Enterprise, Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District, and Upper Arkansas Water Conservancy District began a retrospective evaluation
Authors
Lisa D. Miller, Kenneth R. Watts, Roderick F. Ortiz
By
Water Resources Mission Area, Colorado Water Science Center
Hydrogeology and quality of ground water in the upper Arkansas River basin from Buena Vista to Salida, Colorado, 2000-2003
The upper Arkansas River Basin between Buena Vista and Salida, Colorado, is a downfaulted basin, the Buena Vista-Salida structural basin, located between the Sawatch and Mosquito Ranges. The primary aquifers in the Buena Vista-Salida structural basin consist of poorly consolidated to unconsolidated Quaternary-age alluvial and glacial deposits and Tertiary-age basin-fill deposits. Maximum thickness
Authors
Kenneth R. Watts
By
Colorado Water Science Center
Water-quality variations and trends in Monument and Fountain Creeks, El Paso and Pueblo counties, Colorado, water years 1976-88
No abstract available.
Authors
B. C. Ruddy
Below are partners associated with this project.
