Utah's Water Quality
  • Home
    • Utah Watershed Contact List
    • Utah Watershed Partners
  • Projects
    • Success Stories
    • Funding
  • Media
    • Videos
    • Photo Gallery
  • Data & Reports
    • Final Project Reports
    • Data
  • Outreach
    • Education & Information Ideas
    • Small Acreage Farms
  • NPS Pollution
    • What is nonpoint source pollution?
    • Management of Utah's NPS Pollution
    • Best Management Practices
    • Assessment and Monitoring
    • The Status of Utah's Waterbodies
  • Find Your Watershed
    • Bear River Watershed
    • Uinta Basin Watershed
    • Utah Lake / Jordan River Watershed
    • Great Salt Lake Watershed
    • Western Colorado Watershed
    • Weber River Watershed
    • Cedar/Beaver Watershed
    • Lower Colorado Watershed
    • Southeast Colorado Watershed
    • Sevier River Watershed
  • Home
    • Utah Watershed Contact List
    • Utah Watershed Partners
  • Projects
    • Success Stories
    • Funding
  • Media
    • Videos
    • Photo Gallery
  • Data & Reports
    • Final Project Reports
    • Data
  • Outreach
    • Education & Information Ideas
    • Small Acreage Farms
  • NPS Pollution
    • What is nonpoint source pollution?
    • Management of Utah's NPS Pollution
    • Best Management Practices
    • Assessment and Monitoring
    • The Status of Utah's Waterbodies
  • Find Your Watershed
    • Bear River Watershed
    • Uinta Basin Watershed
    • Utah Lake / Jordan River Watershed
    • Great Salt Lake Watershed
    • Western Colorado Watershed
    • Weber River Watershed
    • Cedar/Beaver Watershed
    • Lower Colorado Watershed
    • Southeast Colorado Watershed
    • Sevier River Watershed

Uinta watershed
​Interesting Facts

Uinta Watershed
  • Has many lakes, rivers, and streams.
  • Ashley National Forest: established 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt. It has an area of 2,160 sqaure miles.
  • Ute and Ouray Indian Reservation: second-largest Indian reservation in the US with an area of 6,796 square miles.
  • Kings Peak is the highest peak in the state at an elevation of 13,528. It is located in the north-central Duchesne County in the Uinta mountains.
Flaming Gorge Reservoir
  • Flaming Gorge Reservoir spans the Utah-Wyoming border.
  • Created in 1964, the reservoir dams the Green River and has a storage capacity of 3,788,900 acre feet of water.
  • It has a surface area of 65.66 square miles.
  • Lake trout, Burbot, Rainbow trout, Brown trout, Cutthroat trout, Smallmouth bass, Sockeye salmon, carp, and Cutbow are some of the fish that are found in the reservoir.
  • The Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area is a popular place for camping, hiking, boating, and fishing.
Picture
Green River
  • The Green River begins in the Wind River Range in Wyoming and flows a distance of 730 miles where is empties into the Colorado River in Canyonlands National Park.
  • It is a popluar river for fishing and for rafting.
Picture
Sub-Watersheds
  • Strawberry
  • Duchesne
  • Lower Green-Desolation Canyon
  • Lower White (western half)
  • Lower Green-Diamond
  • Willow
  • Ashley-Brush
  • Upper Green-Flaming Gorge Reservoir (southern portion)
  • Blacks Fork (southern portion)
Counties in this Watershed
  • Uintah 
  • Duchesne
  • Daggett
  • Summit
  • Carbon 
  • Wasatch 
  • Grand 

Utah Division of Water Quality

USU Water Quality Extension

Utah Department of Agriculture and Food

Copyright © 2015