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McElmo Creek

McElmo Creek

River

McElmo Creek is a 70.1-mile-long (112.8 km)[2] tributary that joins the San Juan River in San Juan County, Utah. The creek's source is just east of Cortez in Montezuma County, Colorado.

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The flow in McElmo Creek increased after water was diverted out of the Dolores River just downstream of Dolores by the construction of the Montezuma Tunnel in 1889. The Montezuma Tunnel and the subsequent project, including Lake McPhee, irrigated the dry Montezuma Valley. This irrigation resulted in new water flows to McElmo Creek from flood irrigation wastewater, canal leakage, and sluicing and from higher groundwater levels.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service installed a PIT antenna on McElmo Creek in 2012. The antenna monitors the movement of tagged endangered fishes.[3]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "McElmo Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2011-01-30.
  2. [2]
    U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 21, 2011
  3. [3]
    "PIT Tag Antenna Systems Provide New Data for the San Juan Recovery Program", Mark McKinstry and Peter MacKinnon, Swimming Upstream Newsletter, Winter 2014



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