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River Recreational Statement

Colorado Basin River Forecast Center,  Salt Lake City Utah

723 AM MDT October 02, 1997



Recreational River Report provided by the Colorado Basin River Forecast

Center. This information is also available through the Internet by 

connecting to www.cbrfc.gov/public/for.html and then clicking on 

Today's River Statement.



This morning's river flows in cubic feet per second for 

Thursday, October 02, 1997. Please note that all data are provisional.



-Colorado Basin-                       -Green River Basin-



Colorado at Westwater       est 7400  Green blo Fontenelle          1450

Gunnison blo Gunnison Tun       1450  Green nr Greendale            2100

Dolores blo Mcphee                45  Yampa at Maybell              1050

Dolores nr Bedrock                90  Little Snake nr Lily           300

Dolores nr Cisco                 290  Green at Jensen               3600

Colorado nr Cisco               7000  White nr Watson                980

Cataract Canyon               e15500  Green nr Green R, Ut          7200

Lake Powell Inflow            e19500  San Rafael nr Green R, Ut       90

Virgin nr St. George             120  Escalante nr Escalante           0

Virgin nr Littlefield            155  Cottonwood Ck blo Joes Val     140

Muddy nr Emery                    15

Colorado at Lees Ferry         16500





-Great Basin-                         -San Juan Basin-



Weber nr Oakley                  105  San Juan nr Archuleta          580

Weber nr Echo                    310  Animas nr Durango              900

Weber at Gateway                 340  San Juan nr Bluff             1950

Provo nr Woodland                 95

Ogden blo Pineview Dam             M

Sevier blo Piute Dam               M



Trend for the next 2 days in all basins, will be little change in streamflow,

  except in stream-basins of southern Utah and Arizona which received

  significant amounts of rain from tropical storm NORA, where streamflows may

  still be declining.



Yesterday's reservoir elevations in feet above mean sea level:



Fontenelle                    6504.1

Flaming Gorge                 6036.4

Crystal                       6748.3

Navajo                             M

Glen Canyon                   3690.4



For future reservoir releases from Bureau of Reclamation Reservoirs call:



in Southwest Colorado   -  (970) 385-6578

in Westcentral Colorado -  (970) 248-0660

for Flaming Gorge, 

Lake Powell and Navajo  -  (801) 524-3732 or 3642

                    

Forecast flows in cubic feet per second for Thursday thru Saturday:



Colorado - Westwater........ 6700-7700

Dolores - nr Bedrock........ 85-95

Colorado - nr Cisco......... 6500-7500

San Juan - nr Bluff......... 1600-1950

Green - nr Green River, Ut.. 6800-7400

Cataract Canyon............. 13500-16000



For information on the Upper Snake River in Wyoming and eastern Idaho call 

1-800-658-5771.  For information on the Salmon River and the Snake

River in western Idaho call 208-327-7865. 









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