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Basinwide Studies

Colorado Headwaters

Dolores River

Upper Green River

Gunnison River

San Juan River

Yampa/White River

U.S. Geological Survey

Western Colorado Office, Grand Junction, CO

Meeker Field Office, Meeker, CO

Impacts of Climate Change

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge, Maybell, CO 
Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program
Western Colorado Ecological Services Field Office, Grand Junction, CO
Colorado River Fishery Project , Grand Junction, CO 

U.S. Forest Service

USFS Region 2 
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

EPA in Colorado

Surf your watershed

EPA Regions 8 (Mountains and Plains

Bureau of Land Management

Little Snake Field Office, Craig, CO
White River Field Office, Meeker, CO

Bureau of Reclamation

Western Colorado Area Office

Provo Area Office

Albuquerque Area Office

Power Office

Detailed map

Largest Cities within the Upper Colorado River Basin

Colorado

• Grand Junction (58,566)

New Mexico

• Farmington  (45,877)

Cities outside the Upper Colorado River Basin that receive its diversions  

(population - US census 2010)

1902 Reclamation Act

1920 Kinkaid Act - starts wheels turning for construction of Hoover Dam

1922 Colorado River Compact

1922 State of Wyoming v. State of Colorado

1928 Boulder Canyon Project Act

1931 Boulder Canyon Project Agreement

1944 Mexican Water Treaty

1948 Upper Colorado River Basin Compact

1956 Colorado River Storage Project Act

1962 Navajo Indian Irrigation Project

1968 Colorado River Basin Project Act

1974 Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act

2001 Colorado River Interim Surplus Guidelines