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    • Education & Information Ideas
    • Small Acreage Farms
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    • What is nonpoint source pollution?
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SOUTHEAST COLORADO RIVER WATERSHED
Interesting facts

Southeast Colorado River Watershed
  • Major cities include Blanding, Monticello, Moab, and La Sal.
  • Most of the land in this watershed is Indian Reservation or federally owned.
  • Land uses include mining, agriculture, grazing, and recreation.
  • Recreational opportunities include: Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Canyonlands National Park, Natural Bridges National Monument, and Arches National Park and National Forest lands.
PictureColorado River
San Juan River
The San Juan River is a major tributary to the Colorado. It is 383 miles longs with an average discharge of 2,200 cubic feet per second. It originates in the Southern Rocky Mountains in Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico and empties into Lake Powell. It is a popular river for rafting, fly fishing, and sight seeing. 

PictureLake Powell
Lake Powell
​Lake Powell is a reservoir on the Colorado River. The Glen Canyon Dam, located in Arizona, was completed on September 13, 1963 and it took 11 years for the lake to reach its high water mark. It covers an area of 254.1 square miles and has a mean depth of 131 feet. Lake Powell was named after John Wesley Powell, a one-armed Civil War veteran who explored the Colorado river in 1869.

Sub-watersheds
  • Lower Lake Powell (eastern portion)
  • Upper Lake Powell (eastern portion)
  • Lower San Juan (northern portion)
  • Lower San Juan-Four Corners
  • Chinle (small northern portion)
  • Montezuma (western portion)
  • McElmo (western portion)
  • Upper Colorado-Kane Springs
  • Westwater Canyon
  • Lower Dolores (western half)
  • Upper Dolores (western portion)
  • Colorado Headwaters-Plateau (small western portion)
Counties in this Watershed
  • San Juan
  • Grand

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