UCREFRP Temperature Collection Protocols 2018

This document describes how the Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program Director’s Office (PDO) collects and processes data on stream temperatures at various locations across the upper Colorado River basin. The Recovery Program is only one of multiple entities that collect long-term stream temperature data in the upper Colorado River system. Other entities include the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Utah Department of Natural Resources (Utah DNR), Colorado State University (CSU), and the Central Utah Water Conservancy District (CUWCD). In this manner, the Recovery Program and its partners and stakeholders may draw upon data collected by multiple entities when evaluating river temperatures – not solely the data collected by the PDO and posted to the Recovery Program website according to the protocols described here.