Cool depiction of all the river basins in the US

[moguy1973]

This website has several cool depictions of all the major river basins in the US.  It's hard to believe how much water the Mississippi collects before it empties into the Gulf of Mexico.  I want to know what where the water in the areas in the western US (the magenta and purple colored areas north of the Colorado River system) goes if it doesn't flow into a river system that exits into an ocean.  I guess those end up in glacial lakes?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3860062/The-veins-America-Stunning-map-shows-river-basin-US.html#i-b140b57f813fb6c5

[WoundedOne]

Check out this link also pretty cool stuff. click on a creek, steam, river of interest 

 

https://txpub.usgs.gov/DSS/streamer/web/mobile.html

[moguy1973]

Well that link answers my question on where those areas out west go.  If you click on Lake Tahoe it just goes down a stream to Pyramid Lake and stops.  Closed system.

[Terrierman]

Same same Great Salt Lake.  Check out the huge Cutthroat fishery in Pyramid Lake.  Amazing.

 

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=pyramid+lake+fishing&qpvt=pyramid+lake+fishing&qpvt=pyramid+lake+fishing&qpvt=pyramid+lake+fishing&FORM=IGRE

[Pat Magee]

3 hours ago, moguy1973 said:

This website has several cool depictions of all the major river basins in the US.  It's hard to believe how much water the Mississippi collects before it empties into the Gulf of Mexico.  I want to know what where the water in the areas in the western US (the magenta and purple colored areas north of the Colorado River system) goes if it doesn't flow into a river system that exits into an ocean.  I guess those end up in glacial lakes?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3860062/The-veins-America-Stunning-map-shows-river-basin-US.html#i-b140b57f813fb6c5

I saw this on Facebook.  I sent it to a friend of mine to have it blown up a little to put in a frame.  It is such an amazing visual.  

[ColdWaterFshr]

4 hours ago, moguy1973 said:

I want to know what where the water in the areas in the western US (the magenta and purple colored areas north of the Colorado River system) goes if it doesn't flow into a river system that exits into an ocean.  I guess those end up in glacial lakes?

It ends up watering the golf courses of Las Vegas and Arizona, as well as evaporating as it sits in Lake Mead and Lake Powell.  By the time the Colorado river gets to Gulf of California, it is barely a trickle.

 

[fishinwrench]

That green area up North looks rather boring.  Are those man made irrigation ditches ?

[Forsythian]

2 hours ago, ColdWaterFshr said:

It ends up watering the golf courses of Las Vegas and Arizona, as well as evaporating as it sits in Lake Mead and Lake Powell.  By the time the Colorado river gets to Gulf of California, it is barely a trickle.

 

Hey Debbie Downer, it was good to see you on the river week before last.  I forgot to ask you what Paul Dallas is up to...  running a Scarab on Havasu maybe? 

[ColdWaterFshr]

1 hour ago, Forsythian said:

Hey Debbie Downer, it was good to see you on the river week before last.  I forgot to ask you what Paul Dallas is up to...  running a Scarab on Havasu maybe? 

Heya Wayne,

Good seeing you too.  Hope the river treated you right.  We caught fish, but nothing special.   Was a great weekend to be out.  How about that moonrise on Saturday night?  That was special.

Yes - Paul is splitting his time between his Scarab on Havasu and the Taney county jail.  Did you hear that he is dating Megyn Kelly?  She bought him the Scarab!