The primary mission of the DWR Hydrographic and Satellite Monitoring Branch is to collect, analyze, and present accurate, high quality 'real time' flow and storage data in Colorado rivers, streams, creeks, canals, ditches and reservoirs to support the water rights administration mission of DWR.

This report summarizes recent observations and field measurements of channel change in selected reaches of the Colorado River near Grand Junction Colorado This work was undertaken to assess effects of recent high flows on sites that have been monitored as part of on-going fish habitat studies.

Transparent overlays depict the plant and animal life found along a river and how rain and winter can change the river.