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Controlled Flooding of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon: the Rationale and Data-Collection Planned
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Controlled Flooding of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon: the Rationale and Data-Collection Planned |
| Creator | Anderson, Mark T.; Graf, Julia B.; Marzolf, G. Richard |
| Subject | Water levels; Flood control; Flood dams and reservoirs; |
| Coverage | Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico); Colorado; Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.); Grand Canyon (Ariz.); |
| Description | Controlled flooding of the Colorado River by releases from Glen Canyon Dam has been proposed as a way to manage sediment and other resources in the Grand Canyon. Floods are a natural occurrence of rivers and, in the case of the Colorado River, the architect of the Grand Canyon landscape. Scientists have proposed a controlled flood in response to resource managers' request for ways to restore some of the pre-dam resource conditions. Floods are expected to suspend sand moved to the river bottom... |
| Publisher | U. S. Geological Survey |
| Date | 1996 |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Anderson, Mark T.; Graf, Julia B.; Marzolf, G. Richard, Controlled Flooding of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon: the Rationale and Data-Collection Planned, Tucson, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 089-96, 2 p. |
| Language | eng |
| Rights | Public Domain, Courtesy of the USGS |
| Identifier | http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/ref/collection/wwdl-er/id/238 |
