The Water Desk at the School for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Upper Colorado River Resource Guide
Lake Powell water level information
NRCS: Snowpack chart
USGS: Map of real time streamflow conditions in Colorado
USGS: Table of real time Colorado streamflows
USGS: List of USGS links for Colorado headwaters
USGS: Roaring Fork watershed links
USGS: Eagle River watershed links
USGS: Blue River watershed links
Brent Gardner-Smith/Aspen Journalism
A view from the Pitkin County end of Homestake Reservoir, located on Homestake Creek, a tributary of the upper Eagle River.
Brent Gardner-Smith/Aspen Journalism
The building, in Denver, that houses the CWCB.
Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB)
CWCB: Past meeting agendas
CWCB: Colorado’s Water Plan
CWCB: Colorado River Basin Roundtable (CBRT)
CBRT: Colorado River Basin Implementation Plan
CBRT: Colorado River basin roundtable membership list, from Aspen Journalism
Arkansas River Basin Roundtable
Gunnison River Basin Roundtable
South Platte River Basin Roundatble
Yampa White Green River Basin Roundtable
Rio Grande River Basin Roundtable
Jeremy Wallace / The Aspen Times
A view of red canyon, just south of Glenwood Springs, from the Roaring Fork River on May 13, 2015.
Grand Valley Water Users Association
Northwest Council of Governments
Aspen Consolidated Sanitation District
Snowmass Water and Sanitation District
Basalt Water Conservancy District
Ruedi Water and Power Authority
Eagle River Water and Sanitation
West Divide Water Conservancy District
Ute Water Conservancy District
Grand County Water and Sanitation
Winter Park Water and Sanitation District
Upper Blue Sanitation District
Silt Water Conservancy District
Bluestone Water Conservancy District
Collbran Water Conservancy District
Middle Park Water Conservancy District
Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District
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The diversion structure for the Maybell Canal on the Yampa River east of Maybell. The ditch has been working to reduce diversions after the division engineer found it was diverting more water than it needed.
Northern: West Slope water data
Northern: Reservoir data
Southeastern Water Conservancy District
Twin Lakes Reservoir and Canal Company
Brent Gardner-Smith / Aspen Journalism
Part of a trans mountain diversion structure on a tributary in the upper Fryingpan River.
Grand River Ditch
Photo: Courtesy of Bureau of Reclamation
The crest of the dam across the Fryingpan River that forms Ruedi Reservoir, which can hold 102,373 acre-feet of water.
Grass Valley Reservoir
Clinton Gulch Reservoir
Largest Reservoirs in Colorado
Brent Gardner-Smith/Aspen Journalism
A beaver dam on lower Lincoln Creek, in 2011.
Colorado Mesa University Water Center
Colorado River Outfitters Association
Brent Gardner-Smith/Aspen Journalism
The Government Highline Canal is managed by the Grand Valley Water Users Association, and serves as a major source of irrigation water in the Grand Valley.
Cameo call flows
River gages:
Flows in Colorado River at Cameo
Flows in Plateau Creek at Colorado River
Flows in the 15-mile reach below Palisade
Flows in Government Highland Canal
Flows in Grand Valley Irrigation Canal
Flows in Orchard Mesa Canal System
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The Grottos, in the upper Roaring Fork River basin.
Roaring Fork flows and info
Flows in Roaring Fork at Glenwood
Flows in Roaring Fork through Aspen, at Mill St.
Flows in Roaring Fork through Aspen
Roaring Fork River basin flows
Roaring Fork watershed gage map
Brent Gardner-Smith/Aspen Journalism
A view of the Dolores River below Slickrock.
Basin Maps
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The Colorado River basin and its context in the West.
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Transmountain diversions in Colorado, by size
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River basins in Colorado.
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The Upper Colorado River basin, within Colorado, including the Gunnison River basin.
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The upper Colorado River basin, within Colorado, including the Gunnison basin.
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USGS
A map showing water facilities in the upper Colorado River basin.
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The Upper Colorado River basin, within Colorado, aka Div. 5
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Upper Colorado River above Grand Junction, aka Div. 5
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Upper Colorado River basin map
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Grand Valley consumptive use map, CBRT draft BIP
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Middle Colorado sub region per CBRT BIP
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Roaring Fork sub region, CBRT BIP
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Roaring Fork River watershed
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Eagle River sub region per CBRT BIP
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Eagle River basin.
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State Bridge sub region per CBRT BIP
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Summit County sub region, CBRT BIP
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The Blue River basin.
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Grand County sub region per CBRT BIP
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The headwaters of the upper Colorado River.