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RECORD NUMBER: 582 OF 1139

Main Title Report on Water Quality and Public Health Aspects of the Proposed Senator Wash Project.
CORP Author Public Health Service, Denver, Colo. Div. of Water Supply and Pollution Control
Year Published 1963
Stock Number PB-260 303
Additional Subjects Water reservoirs ; Water quality data ; Sewage bacteria ; Sewage sludge ; Salinity ; Salt water intrusion ; Senator Wash Reservoir ; Colorado River ;
Holdings
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Status
NTIS  PB-260 303 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation 21p
Abstract
The Public Health Service initiated a study to determine the need for and value of storage in Senator Wash Reservoir for regulation of streamflow and water quality control. The report includes the results of a study on general public health and vector control aspects of the project. Salinity is a serious problem in the Colorado River below the confluence of the Gila River. Bacteriological densities, in excess of desirable limits, are caused by discharge of raw sewage from Yuma, Arizona. Storage of water in the Senator Wash Project for mineral quality control is not recommended until salt discharges have been controlled. Reduction of flows in the Colorado River would also increase the problems associated with sludge discharge.