As large-scale energy development continues in the Piceance Basin, there is potential for changes in surface-water and groundwater resources. In the southern Piceance Basin, a water task force consisting of numerous local governments, municipalities, and energy companies collectively identified the need for a common data repository. In the northern Piceance Basin, similar efforts were underway in approximately the same timeframe. The outcome of these efforts is the combined northern and southern Piceance Basins project, referred to collectively as "the Piceance Basin." Data collected for the Piceance Basin provide an invaluable contribution to the planning, monitoring, conservation, and management of water resources.
Approach
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with energy industry and local and State agency partners, is in the process of creating and maintaining a public, web-accessible common data repository. The repository will combine waterquality data from industry, local, State, Federal, and other sources. Data will be screened and merged from disparate locations and formatted into a single uniform format. The quality and completeness of the incoming data will be reviewed and documented. Using the repository, the USGS will evaluate all available water-quality data to develop a baseline assessment of the region’s water resources. Results of the baseline assessment will facilitate the development of regional monitoring strategies to fill identified data gaps and minimize redundancies in current and future water-resource monitoring
Below are other science projects associated with the Colorado Water-Quality Data Repository.
Below are multimedia items associated with this project.
Below are publications associated with this project.
Methane in groundwater from a leaking gas well, Piceance Basin, Colorado, USA
Sediment transport and water-quality characteristics and loads, White River, northwestern Colorado, water years 1975-88
Geology of the central Roan Plateau area, northwestern Colorado
Water-quality and sediment-transport characteristics in Kenney Reservoir, White River basin, northwestern Colorado
Geohydrologic evaluation of the upper part of the Mesaverde Group, northwestern Colorado
Sedimentology, mineralogy, palynology, and depositional history of some uppermost Cretaceous and lowermost Tertiary rocks along the Utah Book and Roan cliffs east of the Green River
Predicted effects of underground mine flooding at tract C-b in Piceance Basin, northwestern Colorado
Oil shale, water resources, and valuable minerals of the Piceance Basin, Colorado; the challenge and choices of development
Simulation of mine drainage for preliminary development of oil shale and associated minerals, Piceance basin, northwestern Colorado
Hydrologic data from Roan Creek and Parachute Creek basins, northwestern Colorado
Hydrologic data from Naval Oil Shale Reserves, Parachute Creek basin, northwestern Colorado, water years 1982-83
Benthic invertebrates in selected streams of the Piceance Creek basin, northwestern Colorado, water years 1977-81
Discharge and water quality of springs in Roan and Parachute Creek basins, northwestern Colorado, 1981-83
Below are partners associated with this project.
As large-scale energy development continues in the Piceance Basin, there is potential for changes in surface-water and groundwater resources. In the southern Piceance Basin, a water task force consisting of numerous local governments, municipalities, and energy companies collectively identified the need for a common data repository. In the northern Piceance Basin, similar efforts were underway in approximately the same timeframe. The outcome of these efforts is the combined northern and southern Piceance Basins project, referred to collectively as "the Piceance Basin." Data collected for the Piceance Basin provide an invaluable contribution to the planning, monitoring, conservation, and management of water resources.
Approach
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with energy industry and local and State agency partners, is in the process of creating and maintaining a public, web-accessible common data repository. The repository will combine waterquality data from industry, local, State, Federal, and other sources. Data will be screened and merged from disparate locations and formatted into a single uniform format. The quality and completeness of the incoming data will be reviewed and documented. Using the repository, the USGS will evaluate all available water-quality data to develop a baseline assessment of the region’s water resources. Results of the baseline assessment will facilitate the development of regional monitoring strategies to fill identified data gaps and minimize redundancies in current and future water-resource monitoring
Below are other science projects associated with the Colorado Water-Quality Data Repository.
Below are multimedia items associated with this project.
Below are publications associated with this project.
Methane in groundwater from a leaking gas well, Piceance Basin, Colorado, USA
Sediment transport and water-quality characteristics and loads, White River, northwestern Colorado, water years 1975-88
Geology of the central Roan Plateau area, northwestern Colorado
Water-quality and sediment-transport characteristics in Kenney Reservoir, White River basin, northwestern Colorado
Geohydrologic evaluation of the upper part of the Mesaverde Group, northwestern Colorado
Sedimentology, mineralogy, palynology, and depositional history of some uppermost Cretaceous and lowermost Tertiary rocks along the Utah Book and Roan cliffs east of the Green River
Predicted effects of underground mine flooding at tract C-b in Piceance Basin, northwestern Colorado
Oil shale, water resources, and valuable minerals of the Piceance Basin, Colorado; the challenge and choices of development
Simulation of mine drainage for preliminary development of oil shale and associated minerals, Piceance basin, northwestern Colorado
Hydrologic data from Roan Creek and Parachute Creek basins, northwestern Colorado
Hydrologic data from Naval Oil Shale Reserves, Parachute Creek basin, northwestern Colorado, water years 1982-83
Benthic invertebrates in selected streams of the Piceance Creek basin, northwestern Colorado, water years 1977-81
Discharge and water quality of springs in Roan and Parachute Creek basins, northwestern Colorado, 1981-83
Below are partners associated with this project.