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RVRSLC

River Recreational Statement
Colorado Basin River Forecast Center,  Salt Lake City Utah
727 AM MDT May 12, 2000

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, selecting Forecasts/Products and then Daily
Recreational River Report. 

This morning's river flows in cubic feet per second for 
Friday, May 12, 2000. Please note that all data are provisional.

-Colorado Basin-                       -Green River Basin-

Colorado at Westwater          11500  Green blo Fontenelle          1600
Gunnison blo Gunnison Tun       1050  Green blo Flaming Gorge      e1800
Dolores blo Mcphee               740  Yampa at Maybell              6800
Dolores nr Bedrock               840  Little Snake nr Lily          2300
Dolores nr Cisco                1950  Green at Jensen               8600
Colorado nr Cisco              11500  White nr Watson               1400
Cataract Canyon               e26500  Green nr Green R, Ut        e12500
Lake Powell Inflow            e28500  San Rafael nr Green R, Ut       45
Virgin nr St. George              90  Escalante nr Escalante        < 10  
Virgin nr Littlefield            120  Cottonwood Ck blo Joes Val       M
Muddy nr Emery                    75
Colorado at Lees Ferry         17000    

Trend for the next 2 days:            Trend for the next 2 days:
Rising on the mainstem then falling    Rising in the headwaters
Falling on the Dolores                 Falling in the Lower Green 

-Great Basin-                         -San Juan Basin-

Weber nr Oakley                  370  San Juan nr Archuleta          460
Weber nr Echo                     80  Animas nr Durango             2300
Weber at Gateway                 230  San Juan nr Bluff             2500
Provo nr Woodland                660
Ogden blo Pineview Dam            70
Sevier blo Piute Dam             270

Trend for the next 2 days:            Trend for the next 2 days:
Steady to Falling                     Falling in the Animas
                                      Falling then rising in the Lower SJ
                  
Forecast flows in cubic feet per second for Friday thru Sunday:

Colorado - Westwater........ 11000-13000
Colorado - nr Cisco......... 10500-13000
San Juan - nr Bluff......... 2200-2900
Green - nr Green River, Ut.. 10000-13000
Cataract Canyon............. 23500-27000

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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