USGS Top Story: A Century of Watching the Colorado River
Video:
- B-roll: ~ 8 minutes of public domain footage including Lees Ferry gage house, water quality monitoring, cableway, drone footage at Paria River and Lees Ferry gage.
- Two-minute video about the 100-year-old streamgage
Photos:
- Photo: “Suspended Scientists” USGS scientists sampling from cableway
- Photo: “Suspended Scientists II” USGS scientists sampling from cableway
- Photo: Lees Ferry streamgage and cableway looking downstream on the Colorado River, Arizona
- Photo: Measuring Suspended-Sediment Transport
- Photo: Biological sampling at Lees Ferry in the Grand Canyon High Flow Experiment
- Historical photo: Lees Ferry gaging station, cable and car in view at lower right, 1921
- Historical photo: View from the right bank downstream from the Number 1 Gage at Lees Ferry on the Colorado River, Arizona, 1923
USGS Publications:
- Fact Sheet: How Does a U.S. Geological Survey Streamgage Work?
- Fact Sheet: U.S. Geological Survey Streamgaging ... from the National Streamflow Information Program
- USGS Professional Paper 1677: Computation and Analysis of the Instantaneous-Discharge Record for the Colorado River at Lees Ferry, Arizona—May 8, 1921, through September 30, 2000