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River Recreational Statement

Colorado Basin River Forecast Center,  Salt Lake City Utah

855 AM MDT April 18, 1998



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 

Saturday, April 18, 1998. Please note that all data are provisional.



-Colorado Basin-                       -Green River Basin-



Colorado at Westwater           7000  Green blo Fontenelle          1400

Gunnison blo Gunnison Tun        800  Green nr Greendale            3200

Dolores blo Mcphee               740  Yampa at Maybell              3700

Dolores nr Bedrock              1050  Little Snake nr Lily           660

Dolores nr Cisco                1900  Green at Jensen               7600

Colorado nr Cisco              e8600  White nr Watson               1200

Cataract Canyon               e19000  Green nr Green R, Ut        e11000

Lake Powell Inflow            e20500  San Rafael nr Green R, Ut       45

Virgin nr St. George             400  Escalante nr Escalante          15

Virgin nr Littlefield            220  Cottonwood Ck blo Joes Val     130

Muddy nr Emery                     5

Colorado at Lees Ferry         10500



Trend for the next 2 days:            Trend for the next 2 days:





-Great Basin-                         -San Juan Basin-



Weber nr Oakley                  110  San Juan nr Archuleta          600

Weber nr Echo                    800  Animas nr Durango              500

Weber at Gateway                1100  San Juan nr Bluff             1300

Provo nr Woodland                125

Ogden blo Pineview Dam           620

Sevier blo Piute Dam             600



Trend for the next 2 days:            Trend for the next 2 days:



Fluctuating near present levels, with some rises in the lower canyons,

but steady to slowly falling elsewhere.

                  

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



Colorado - Westwater........ 6200-7200

Dolores - nr Bedrock........ 950-1100

Colorado - nr Cisco......... 7800-8800

San Juan - nr Bluff......... 1050-1350

Green - nr Green River, Ut.. 10000-12000

Cataract Canyon............. 18500-20000



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

  

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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