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Indexes of hydrologic data from selected coal-mining areas in northwestern Colorado

Open-File Report 88-347
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https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr88347

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Abstract

Currently (1988), data from hydrologic studies related to coal mining that have been done in northwestern Colorado since the early 1970 's are stored in the files of private companies and government offices and in various computer systems. To compile these data for additional research, a trip to each office would have to be made to determine the availability and acceptability of the data. The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Division, has created a database (COALDATA) that includes stream discharge, groundwater levels, and chemical analysis of water samples that were collected by private companies and government agencies other than the U.S. Geological Survey in and near selected coal mines in northwestern Colorado. Indexes in this report list 93 surface water sites and 95 groundwater sites where hydrologic data are available in the COALDATA data base. The indexes also list 62 surface water sites and 480 groundwater sites in the U.S. Geological Survey data base, which is separate from the COALDATA data base and contains only data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey. The combined output of the COALDATA data base and the U.S. Geological Survey data base provides surface water and groundwater data that include most of the study area. (USGS)

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Gaggiani, N., 1989, Indexes of hydrologic data from selected coal-mining areas in northwestern Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 88-347, iv, 30 p. :ill. ;28 cm., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr88347.

ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)

Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Indexes of hydrologic data from selected coal-mining areas in northwestern Colorado
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 88-347
DOI 10.3133/ofr88347
Year Published 1989
Language ENGLISH
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey,
Description iv, 30 p. :ill. ;28 cm.
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