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	Dirty Devil River - UT
		The river made a quick bend to the left but the image of what might lie around the corner led to my desire to float the river.
		The river was very braided and the ducky's did very well despite the water being mostly calf deep.
		The bottom of the Dirty Devil is made up mostly of tightly compacted sand so walking in it is pleasant.
	www.paddling.net /places/showReport.html?885 (678 words)

	Colorado River (U.S.) - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Colorado River is a river in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately 1,450 mi (2,333 km) long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains.
		The natural course of the river flows into the Gulf of California, but the heavy use of the river as a fresh water source has desiccated the lower course of the river in Mexico such that it no longer reaches the sea.
		The lower course of the river, which forms the border between Baja California and Sonora, is essentially a dry stream today due to use of the river as a water source.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Colorado_River_(U.S.) (825 words)

	Colorado River (U.S.)
		The Colorado River is a river in the southwestern United States, approximately 1,450 mi (2,333 km) long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains.
		The natural course of the river flows into the Gulf of California in northwestern Mexico, but the heavy use of the river as a fresh water source has desiccated the lower course of the river in Mexico such that it no longer reaches the sea.
		The lower course of the river in Mexico is essentially a dry stream today due to use of the river as a water source.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/co/colorado_river__u_s_.html (827 words)

	DIRTY DEVIL WILDERNESS
		Deep within the Dirty Devil River canyons lies a mesa called "The Block." It is a formidable object, a thousand-foot-high fortress with cliff walls curving inward to form deep bays and coves and reaching outward as jetty-like arms.
		The Dirty Devil River and its tributaries have carved as deep as 2,000 feet into the gently uplifted land, leaving a retreating series of cliffs and benches, a classic example of canyon lands topography.
		Vegetation is similar to the Dirty Devil unit, with desert shrubs on lower elevations and a near-relict pinyon-juniper and sagebrush-grassland community atop The Block.
	www.suwa.org /WATE/dirtydevil.html (3868 words)

	Dirty Devil River Basin - Wild and Scenic River - Utah Rivers Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Fremont Indians lived in the canyons of the Dirty Devil from A.D. 500 to A.D. Signs of their passage can be found in the rock art panels in most of the tributary canyons and in the rows of Moqui steps chiseled on sandstone walls.
		The lower part of the Dirty Devil was a transitional area between the Fremont and Anasazi cultures and evidence of both cultures have been found there.
		In describing the merits of the tributaries of the Dirty Devil River, guidebook author Steve Allen wrote: "While the main canyon is stunning, it is the side canyons that are the real attraction.
	www.utahrivers.org /wild_scenic/utah_map/dirty_devil/index.shtml (809 words)

	Articles - Colorado River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		At the southern end of Marble Canyon, the river is joined by another tributary, the Little Colorado, and the river then turns abruptly west directly athwart the folds and fault line of the plateau, through the Grand Canyon, which is 217 miles long and from 4 to 20 miles wide between the upper cliffs.
		The river, taking the canal as a new channel, re-created in California a great inland sea in a area that it had frequently inunated before, for example, in 1884 and 1891, when it had for a time practically abandoned its former course through Mexican territory to the Sea of Cortez.
		Allocation of the river's water is governed by the Colorado River Compact.
	www.izeez.com /articles/Colorado_River_(U.S.) (976 words)

	Dirty Devil River Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Dirty Devil River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 80 mi (129 km) long, in south central Utah in the United States.
		It is formed in Wayne County near Hanksville from the confluence of the Fremont River and Muddy Creek.
		The river was named during the 1869 Colorado River expedition led by John Wesley Powell.
	www.localcolors.com /encyclopedia/Dirty_Devil_River (361 words)

	Articles - Grand Canyon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Havasupai Indian Reservation is in a large tributary canyon on the south side of the Colorado River; it is administered by the Havasupai Indian Tribe.
		The Colorado River drainage (of which the Grand Canyon is a part) has developed in the past 40 million years and the Grand Canyon itself is probably less than five to six million years old (with most of the downcutting occurring in the last two million years).
		Hiking down to the river and back up to the rim in one day is highly discouraged by park officials, due to the distance, effort required, and danger of heat exhaustion from the much higher temperatures at the bottom.
	www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/Grand_Canyon (1582 words)

	Colorado River Summary
		The Colorado River is a river in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately 1,450 mi (2,330 km) long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains.
		The lower course of the river, which forms the border between Baja California and Sonora, is essentially a dry stream today due to use of the river as a water source.
		The lower river from Davis Dam to Yuma is navigable by large paddlewheel boats and river barges, but commercial navigation on the river is unimportant because the river is cut off from the sea and other means of transportation are more efficient in the region.
	www.bookrags.com /Colorado_River (1945 words)

	History of Dirty Devil River, Utah
		Dirty Devil River (Garfield/Wayne) originates at the junction of the Fremont and Muddy rivers that join northeast of Hanksville to form the Dirty Devil.
		During one of Powell's expeditions, the party drew near the mouth of the then unnamned river and someone shouted, "How is she, Jack?" and Jack replied, "Oh, she's a dirty devil!" This is the origin of the name.
		When the river was first named by the Powell group, they made no distiction as to how far upriver the name would apply or which branch the name continued on.
	www.onlineutah.com /dirtydevil_river.shtml (206 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Dirty Devil River DIRTY DEVIL RIVER (Garfield County, Wayne County) originates at the junction of the Fremont and Muddy rivers that join northeast of Hanksville* to form the Dirty Devil.
		During one of Powell's expeditions, the party drew near the mouth of the then unnamed river and someone shouted, "How is she, Jack?" and Jack replied, "Oh, she's a dirty devil!" This is the origin of the name.
		Explorations of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872.
	www.uen.org /ucme/media/text/ta002196.txt (227 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		They stopped at the mouth of the Dirty Devil and a boat went up to see if there was any game or fishing to restock their shrinking food supply.
		The reply was that it was a dirty stinking river, and the name Dirty Devil was applied in response to the hopes of a good meal being ruined by the character of the river.
		Apparently, when a flood like this occurs, the river water, thick with sediment moves along the bottom, and the clear water of the lake is blown by the winds upstream, and rides over the muddy water.
	www.nedcomm.nm.org /~rschafer/ddr.htm (5896 words)

	THE BOULDER COUNTRY BUSINESS GUIDE
		The Escalante River is generally considered to be the last major river to be "discovered" in the contiguous United States.
		Hamblin mistook the Escalante River for the Dirty Devil.
		Although the upper canyons of the Escalante River were formally reserved as the Aquarius National Forest in 1903, formal recognition of the area's recreation and scenic qualities occurred much later in the 1930's.
	www.boulderutah.com /history.html (993 words)

	Articles - Hoover Dam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		One of the major obstacles for the project was determining the equitable allocation of the waters of the Colorado River.
		Several of the Colorado River Basin states feared that California, with its vast financial resources and great thirst for water, would be the first state to begin beneficial use of the waters of the Colorado River and therefore claim rights to the majority of the water.
		The resulting Colorado River Compact, signed on November 24, 1922, split the river basin into upper and lower halves with the states within each region deciding how the water would be divided.
	www.foreverd.com /articles/Hoover_Dam (1773 words)

	Living Rivers News and Announcements
		A more immediate challenge is that the existing sediment plug from the Dirty Devil will cut off access to the existing camp developments in the area, as dam operations force the reservoir to drop.
		When the river incises the sediment at depth, such as what occurred in lower Cataract Canyon in 1992, hiking access is restricted due to unstable slopes of about 30 degrees.
		When the San Juan River is low, access to the take-out is dependent on where the river channel is. Sometimes the river flows directly to the access ramp and sometimes it does not.
	www.drainit.org /archives/article.cfm?NewsID=220 (3890 words)

	Backpacking in the Robbers Roost Canyon
		We waded in the river to the RR entrance, and then had to battle through the bushes for about 150 m before we reached firmer ground.
		On the way back, we found that it is better to get out of the river before the RR estuary, and walk directly towards the Dirty Devil canyon for about 200 m.
		We waded down river for about an hour past the Angel Cove spring, which is a big alcove on the right side of the river.
	www.chpc.utah.edu /~mcuma/r_roost00e.html (1121 words)

	Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program --Overview
		The Colorado River and its tributaries provide municipal and industrial water for more than 23 million people in the seven Basin States and irrigation water to nearly 4 million acres of land.
		The Colorado River salinity problem has been the object of several studies and investigations, and numerous surveys of salinity sources and control measures have been pursued over the years by Reclamation, U.S. Geological Survey, Environmental Protection Agency, Water Resources Council, Colorado River Board of California, Basin States, and several universities.
		In the 1960's and early 1970's, the seven Colorado River Basin states and federal representatives discussed the problem of increasing salinity levels in the lower reaches of the Colorado River.
	www.usbr.gov /dataweb/html/crwq.html (2334 words)

	Drought Conditions in Utah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The West Colorado River Basin lies in Southern Utah, east of the Wasatch Mountains.
		Mountains of the Wasatch Plateau on the west side of the basin drain to the arid regions and the Colorado River on the east side of the basin.
		The SWSI for the San Rafael River was –2.88 with a percentile of 15%.
	www.water.utah.gov /droughtconditions/BasinDroughtReports/WeColorado (1475 words)

	WAPA - CRSP Management Center
		The stage (level of the river) of the Dirty Devil (at the "Dirty Devil above Poison Springs Wash near Hanksville, Utah" surface water discharge station) increased by more than 15 feet during the flood event.
		The flow of the Dirty Devil River during the event is currently undetermined as the stage reached such levels at which flows are not known.
		Precipitation in the Colorado River Basin in October 2006 was much above average, and Lake Powell increased by 6.2 feet during the month, in large part due to exceptional precipitation events in the regions surrounding the lake.
	www.wapa.gov /crsp/operatns/GlenCanyonOperations.htm (910 words)

	Lake Powell
		The many prehistoric sites in the area suggest that this river crossing was well known to early inhabitants as well as to the Navajo.
		(Before that time, one had to cross the river as well as one could--swimming the horses and mules or trying to find a boat!) The ferry operated until June 5, 1964, when it was taken out of service as Lake Powell filled the canyon and bridges were built.
		In 1949, the Vanadium Corporation of America and the Atomic Energy Commission built an experimental mill for the reduction of uranium ore. This mill stimulated uranium prospecting in Glen Canyon, and a small boom camp was built in White Canyon.
	www.travelwest.net /parks/lakepowell/hite.html (765 words)

	Death of a River
		The water is so low that even the Dirty Devil River and the Colorado River actually have a confluence again, their moving waters meeting and mingling as they have only done once since the early seventies.
		The confluence of the Dirty Devil and Colorado Rivers.
		The mixing of the rich, living river with the dead green of the reservoir in a fractal boundary.
	members.accessbee.com /aorange/utah/river2/river2.html (563 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The many prehistoric sites in the area suggest that this river crossing was well known to early inhabitants as well as to the Navajo.
		(Before that time, one had to cross the river as well as one could--swimming the horses and mules or trying to find a boat!) The ferry operated until June 5, 1964, when it was taken out of service as Lake Powell filled the canyon and bridges were built.
		In 1949, the Vanadium Corporation of America and the Atomic Energy Commission built an experimental mill for the reduction of uranium ore. This mill stimulated uranium prospecting in Glen Canyon, and a small boom camp was built in White Canyon.
	www.nps.gov /glca/hite.htm (782 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Special Regulations; Areas of the National Park System
		The 15-mile corridor of the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam was closed to PWC use in the superintendent's compendium for the protection of environmental values and the avoidance of conflict among traditional visitor use activities.
		The Dirty Devil Canyon is very narrow with tight, blind bends, and becomes increasingly hazardous upstream because of shallow and murky water, floating debris, uncertain currents, and shifting sandbars because of the transition from lake to river conditions.
		PWC would have to operate at flat wake speed on the Dirty Devil River upstream from Utah Highway 95 bridge to the point where measurable downstream flow is encountered.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-SPECIES/2003/January/Day-17/e1157.htm (10422 words)

	Thudhead the Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Dirty Devil River to the East, Capitol Reef to the West, and we could make out our normal desert hiking area to the north, the San Rafael Swell.
		After skiing a 1500' run from the south peak summit down near to our camp, we packed up and said enough with the wind already, rented a room in a cheap hotel and hiked a side canyon to the Dirty Devil River the next day.
		The snow is pretty much toast in the Henrys, but it was fun to add another experience skiing on a new mountain.
	home.comcast.net /~johnleeinslc2/2004/05/19.html (266 words)

	History of the Escalante Area \| Utah.com
		In 1871, the Second Powell Expedition enlisted Jacob Hamblin of Kanab, Utah to resupply the expedition at the mouth of the Dirty Devil River.
		Hamblin mistook the Escalante River for the Dirty Devil River.
		Thompson named the Escalante River and the surrounding canyon country the Escalante Basin in honor of the Friar Silvestre Valez de Escalante expedition of 1776.
	www.utah.com /playgrounds/escalante_history.htm (573 words)

	Around the Bend - April-May 98
		There are beautiful meandering rivers, rock cliffs, cliff dwellings, monoliths, fossils, dinosaur tracks, petrified trees, deep winding canyons, inaccessible mesas, sand dunes, lakes and ponds, burial mounds, and rock writings that make up the canyons.
		Hamblin assumed the Escalante headwaters was the Dirty Devil River.
		I would like to row the river once again and to hike again the canyon's many enchanting glens and grottos, to again meditate in the confines of the Cathedral in the Desert, and to explore the beauty of the canyons.
	www.canyoncountryzephyr.com /archives/aroundthebend-april-may98.html (1960 words)

	National Park Service: A Survey of the Recreational Resources of the Colorado River Basin (Chapter 8)
		—West of the junction of the Green and Colorado Rivers is Lands End, appropriate name for a low knob at the south end of a finger of the high plateau standing between the Dirty Devil River and the Colorado.
		Driving south from Green River, Utah, through seemingly endless stretches of sand and rock in places covered with flbrush or grasses in places barren, you note that the ground is gradually rising.
		North of Observation Rock is Cleopatras Chair, a high block of Navajo sandstone sitting on the edge of the upper terrace, commanding a view of the Stillwater Canyon of the Green, Junction Butte, Upheaval Dome, and the La Sal Mountains far beyond.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/colorado/chap8d.htm (640 words)

	Snoopy Visits Kansas, Colorado, Utah
		The muddy waters of the Dirty Devil River have carved a DEEP canyon...Desperadoes around the turn of the century hid out in the rugged canyon lands of "Robbers Roost" across the river.
		In 1869, when one of Powell's expedition members was asked if the waters had trout, he replied with total disgust that smelly and muddy river was "a dirty devil".
		Dirty Devil was so muddy there was little reason to worry, either you make it across it or you did not.
	www.jimgaston.com /utah/utah3.htm (1266 words)

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