Colorado Water Center
The Colorado Water Center (CoWC) is a merger of the CSU Water Center and the Colorado Water Institute, previously known as the Colorado Water Resources Research Institute. The Colorado Water Center has published hundreds of water-related research reports and studies dating back to 1965. These digital collections include annual reports, completion reports, information series, technical reports, special reports, open file reports, Water in the Balance publications,
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Fort Collins Flood 1997: lessons from an extreme event
The July 28, 1997 flood disaster in Fort Collins, Colorado is generally called a "500-year event" and offers insight into the causes and impacts of extreme urban flooding. Although it hurt and traumatized many people, the ... -
Management of large wood in streams of Colorado's Front Range: a risk analysis based on physical, biological, and social factors
Instream and floodplain wood can provide many benefits to river ecosystems, but can also create risks to inhabitants, infrastructure, property, and recreational users in the river corridor. In this report we outline a ... -
Reconstructing a water balance for north Crestone Creek: streamflow variability and extremes in a snowmelt dominated internal drainage basin
The San Luis Valley in Colorado is a semi-arid region that relies on streamflow from the surrounding mountain ranges for agricultural productivity and to recharge the important aquifer systems of the basin. The (North) ... -
Water quality impacts of the mountain pine beetle infestation in the Rocky Mountain west
The Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB) is the primary cause of insect-induced mortality in pine forests in western North America where some lodgepole forests have experienced more than 90% tree mortality. The implications of MPB ... -
Social network analysis workshop for water and resource management
Social network analysis (SNA) is a system for studying relationships and transactions between people, organizations, countries, and other entities. The purpose of this CWI project was to research and apply SNA techniques, ... -
Adjoint modeling to quantify stream flow changes due to aquifer pumping
As populations grow and demand for water increases, new sources of water must be found. If groundwater resources are developed to meet these growing demands, the increased pumping of aquifers should not reduce flows in ... -
Mountain basin hydrologic study
A long-standing problem for the Rocky Mountain region is that traditional meteorology and flood hydrology methods appear to significantly overestimate floods based on comparisons to paleoflood evidence and regional peak ... -
River adjustment and flood hazards on the Colorado Front Range
Stream power, a hydraulic metric representing the potential erosive energy of a flood, is relatively easy to estimate using remotely sensed data and can perform well in predicting channel response to floods. Using a dense ... -
Bark beetle impacts on remotely sensed evapotranspiration in the Colorado Rocky Mountains
Bark beetles represent a major ongoing forest disturbance throughout the southern Rocky Mountains with unknown implications for hydrological partitioning between the abiotic (evaporation) and biotic (transpiration) components ... -
Snow depth measurement via time lapse photography and automated image recognition
Seasonal snow is a crucial component of water supply in Colorado and the western United States. Measurement of snow accumulation through the winter and spring allows water managers to forecast water supply for the growing ... -
Relative costs of new water supply options for Front Range cities: phase 2 report
The following report is the second (and final) installment of a project examining the costs associated with meeting future M&I (municipal and industrial) water supplies along Colorado's Front Range. As summarized in the ...
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