Lower Colorado River Water Accounting
The Colorado River is the principal source of water for irrigation and domestic use in Arizona, southern California, and southern Nevada.
The Secretary of the Interior annually provides detailed and accurate records of diversions, return flows, and consumptive use of water diverted from the mainstream of the Colorado River below Lee Ferry (lower Colorado River) through the two reports below:
Note: All reports are formatted as Adobe Acrobat PDF files.
| Decree Accounting Reports |
These "Decree accounting reports", tabulate measured diversions, measured returns and consumptive use of each user taking water from the lower Colorado River:
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Contact: Paul Matuska at: pmatuska@usbr.gov.
| LCRAS Reports |
The "Lower Colorado River Accounting System Demonstration of Technology" reports document the consumptive use results that LCRAS can provide for the Decree accounting reports, and the data and calculations LCRAS uses to produce those results.
NOTE: Because of the large size of the reports, when the "View Report" option is selected, only the front page of the report will be displayed. This will contain highlighted, clickable links to the body of the reports and their associated appendices.
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Contact: Nicole Everett at: neverett@usbr.gov.
Contact: Colleen Dwyer, cdwyer@usbr.gov
Updated: May 2013
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