{"id":488,"date":"2014-04-03T20:01:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T20:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raisetheriver.org\/will-the-colorado-river-delta-pulse-flow-make-it-to-the\/"},"modified":"2014-07-29T20:20:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T20:20:11","slug":"will-the-colorado-river-delta-pulse-flow-make-it-to-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raisetheriver.org\/will-the-colorado-river-delta-pulse-flow-make-it-to-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Colorado River Delta Pulse Flow Make it to the Sea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/2594675d13e6adb60b6aeba440b197e0\/tumblr_inline_n3h0uwU8pB1sccs91.jpg\" \/>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One of the big unknowns of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2014\/03\/140322-colorado-river-delta-pulse-flow-morelos-dam-minute-319-water\/\">pulse flow of water<\/a>\u00a0currently working its way down the channel of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/environment.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/freshwater\/change-the-course\/colorado-river-map\/\">Colorado River<\/a>\u00a0in its delta is whether that water will reach the sea.\u00a0 The mouth of the Colorado River drained historically into the Upper Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez), a unique body of water that Jacques Cousteau called \u201cthe world\u2019s aquarium.\u201d\u00a0 But with dams and diversions of Colorado River water serving a population of more than 35 million in the United States and Mexico, the Colorado River hasn\u2019t reached its destination regularly since before 1960.<\/p>\n<p>The pulse flow started on March 23, and will continue through May 18.\u00a0 The flow rate varies over time, by design meant to inundate the channel and later to recede slowly and stimulate germination of the seeds that will grow into native cottonwood and willow trees.\u00a0 In order to do this work the pulse flow waters must travel some 25 miles (40 kilometers) of sand that typically exist in the midst of the river\u2019s 100-mile (160-kilometer) run in its delta.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newswatch.nationalgeographic.com\/2014\/04\/03\/will-the-colorado-river-delta-pulse-flow-make-it-to-the-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jennifer Pitt, Environmental Defense Fund\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the big unknowns of the\u00a0pulse flow of water\u00a0currently working its way down the channel of the\u00a0Colorado River\u00a0in its delta is whether that water will reach the sea.\u00a0 The mouth of the Colorado River drained historically into the Upper Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez), a unique body of water that Jacques Cousteau called&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/raisetheriver.org\/will-the-colorado-river-delta-pulse-flow-make-it-to-the\/\" title=\"Read Will the Colorado River Delta Pulse Flow Make it to the Sea?\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,13,8,10,9],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Will the Colorado River Delta Pulse Flow Make it to the Sea? - Raise the River<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/raisetheriver.org\/will-the-colorado-river-delta-pulse-flow-make-it-to-the\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Will the Colorado River Delta Pulse Flow Make it to the Sea? - Raise the River\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One of the big unknowns of the\u00a0pulse flow of water\u00a0currently working its way down the channel of the\u00a0Colorado River\u00a0in its delta is whether that water will reach the sea.\u00a0 The mouth of the Colorado River drained historically into the Upper Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez), a unique body of water that Jacques Cousteau called... 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