Plan for hydrologic study of an area to be surface mined for coal in northwestern Colorado

A data-collection network was established in 1980 in northwestern Colorado in a drainage basin which may be surface mined for coal. This report describes the work plan set up to study the premining hydrology of this area near Steamboat Springs, Routt County, Colorado. The bedrock, alluvial, and surface-water systems as well as the climatic inputs to these systems, are monitored for this study.