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River Recreational Statement
Colorado Basin River Forecast Center,  Salt Lake City Utah
647 AM MDT August 17, 2005

Recreational River Report provided by the Colorado Basin River Forecast
Center. This information is also available through the Internet by 
connecting to www.cbrfc.noaa.gov, selecting Recreational Forecasts and then
Daily Report.

This morning's river flows in cubic feet per second for 
Wednesday, August 17, 2005. Please note that all data are provisional.

-Colorado Basin-                       -Green River Basin-

Colorado nr Kremmling            620  Green blo Fontenelle          1400
Crystal nr Redstone              220  Green blo Flaming Gorge       1650
Colorado at Westwater           4100  Yampa at Maybell               300
Gunnison blo Gunnison Tun        620  Little Snake nr Lily            50
Dolores blo Mcphee                70  Green at Jensen               1750
Dolores nr Bedrock               105  White nr Watson                490
Dolores nr Cisco                 250  Green nr Green R, Ut          2700
Colorado nr Cisco               4800  San Rafael nr Green R, Ut      360
Cataract Canyon                e7600  Escalante nr Escalante          15
Lake Powell Inflow            e10000  Cottonwood Ck blo Joes Val     175
Virgin nr Virgin                 160  Muddy nr Emery                  50
Virgin nr Littlefield            320  Dirty Devil near Hanksvill     250
Colorado at Lees Ferry         10000  

-Great Basin-                         -San Juan Basin-

Weber nr Oakley                  140  San Juan nr Archuleta          470
Weber nr Echo                    450  Animas nr Durango              620
Weber at Gateway                 580  San Juan nr Bluff             2300
Ogden blo Pineview Dam           140
Provo nr Woodland                100
Provo blo Deer Ck Dam           e420  
Sevier blo Piute Dam             350


Trend for the next 2 days: Decreasing flows in areas that recieved thunderstorm
activity yesterday.  Elsewhere, little to no change is expected.
                  
Forecast flows in cubic feet per second for Wednesday thru Friday:

Colorado - Westwater........ 3700-4400
Colorado - nr Cisco......... 4000-4600
San Juan - nr Bluff......... 1700-3150
Green - nr Green River, Ut.. 2400-3100
Cataract Canyon............. 7000-8400

For future reservoir releases from Bureau of Reclamation Reservoirs call:

in Southwest Colorado   -  (970) 565-7562
in Westcentral Colorado -  (970) 248-0660
for Flaming Gorge, 
Lake Powell and Navajo  -  (801) 524-3732 or 3710
  
For information on the Upper Snake River in Wyoming and eastern Idaho call 
1-800-658-5771.  
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