The Colorado Internet Center for Environmental
Problem Solving
Providing Access to University and Regional
Expertise in Dispute Resolution and Environmental Policy Making
Colorado River Conflicts
The sites available through the links on this page offer information about
multiple issues concerning the Colorado River. These include the ecology of
discrete sections of the river, construction projects affecting the river, the
historical use of the river, and legislative efforts at protecting the Colorado.
General Resources
- Colorado River Alliance
- This is the site of the Colorado River Alliance and has a great deal of
information and multiple links to other pages. It also has information on
current Colorado River projects and recent legislative efforts at protection,
etc.
- Lower
Colorado River Authority
- This is the site of the Lower Colorado River Authority, and is maintained
by the University of Texas at Austin. It has many interesting pages, including
maps of the Colorado River, research stations, and multiple other topics of
interest. Its focus is on the Colorado River in Texas.
- Colorado
River Floodway
- This site presents United States Code, Title 43 - Public lands, Chapter 32B - Colorado River Floodway.
- Colorado River
Basin Forecast Center
- This is the site of the Colorado River Basin Forecast Center. It is a
comprehensive page with complete data on the weather conditions, flow rates etc
of the Colorado River at many points along its course. This information is
available for every day from 1-1-97 through the present. This is a very
informative and well maintained site.
- Colorado River Basin
Salinity Control Project
- This site offers a history of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control
Project. One may link up with a page which has information about the
desalination plant and the Department of the Interior's home page. This is a
very useful and informative site.
- Atlas Mines Tailings -
Colorado River at Moab, Utah
- This site addresses the Atlas Mines Tailing Pile near Colorado River at
Moab, Utah. It also has links to a large amount of information about Moab,
Utah. This is a good site for information about the Colorado River in that part
of the country.
- Colorado
River Decision Support System
- This is the site of the Colorado River Decision Support System. Riverside
Technology Inc., which is a water resource and engineering consulting firm, was
selected by the State of Colorado to develop a decision support system to manage
the waters of the Colorado River. The 4-year project will result in a
state-of-the-art system designed to allow decision makers to analyze hydrologic
data, run hydrologic simulation models, and study the effects of potential
decisions. This site is very interesting with multiple links to other useful
sites and it has a huge amount of information. Some of the information is
promotion of the company, RTI.
- Colorado
River at Austin, Texas
- This is the site of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Station
08158000: Colorado river at Austin, Texas. The site is concerned with the
Colorado River main stem, and is part of the national stream-quality accounting
network. This is a very useful site with multiple links and highlighted
key-words through which one may access more specific information. This site
focuses on the Colorado River at Austin, Texas. good site.
- U. S.
Geological Survey
- This is a site of the U. S. Geological Survey with multiple links to other
sites. It has a very helpful map and is a very useful and informative site.
- U.
S. Geological Survey - Water Quality Assessment Program
- This is a U. S. Geological Survey site which is focused on the National
Water Quality Assessment Program - Upper Colorado River Basin. It has a direct
link to the USGS which in turn has multiple links to other sites. This is a
very useful and informative site.
- Colorado State
University - Excellence in Water Resources
- This is a site of the Excellence in Water Resources Program at Colorado
State University. It is a comprehensive site with a broad range of information
on the Colorado River and other Colorado rivers.
- Bureau of
Reclamation
- This is a site of the Bureau of Reclamation with multiple links to other
sites, and the Bureau's home page. The mission of the Bureau of Reclamation is
to manage, develop, and protect water and related resources in an
environmentally and economically sound manner in the interest of the American
public. This is a very useful and informative site.
- United States
Code, Title 43 - Public Lands
- This site contains the text of the United States Code, Title 43 - Public
Lands, Chapter 12B - Colorado River Storage Project.
- Colorado
River Basin Salinity Control
- This site provides the text of the United States Code, Title 43 -
Public Lands, Chapter 32A - Colorado River Basin Salinity Control. This is a useful site.
- Hydrologic Modeling
Resources
- This site is maintained by Hydrologic Modeling Resources and is devoted to
the presentation of an explanation of hydrologic modeling. There is a great
deal of technical information and multiple links to other information and sites.
This is a very useful and informative site.
- Little Colorado River Plateau
- This is a site maintained by the Little Colorado River Plateau Resource,
Conservation and Development Area, Inc. This is an AmeriCorps project with
focus on the Colorado River in northern Arizona and New Mexico. There are a
large number of links to other information and links to other sites. This is a
very useful and informative site.
- CADSWES
- This is a site maintained by the Center for Advanced Decision Support for
Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES).