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<br />..:;:".": <br />":~"- ~ <br />'">'-~"':f <br /> <br />'=1 <br /> <br />, <br />.. <br />~ <br /> <br />and harvest dates, mean air temperature of earliest and latest moisture use, and length of <br />growing season for each crop type (taken from the 1991-95 report) were input to the <br />XCONS2 program for each hydrologic unit. The input data files are found in exhibit 9. <br />The XCONS2 results are presented in exhibit 10. Incidental consumptive use was <br />computed using the same percentages of the computed net irrigation requirement <br />presented in the 1991-95 report. The incidental consumptive use was added to the net <br />irrigation requirement calculated by XCONS2 to compute the total irrigation consumptive <br />use. A summary of irrigation consumptive use by hydrologic unit is presented in exhibit <br />11. <br /> <br />Stock Pond <br />Stock pond consumptive use is assumed to be the evaporation from the stock pond. The <br />total surface area of the stock ponds in the Upper Colorado Basin was taken from Table 2, <br />page 9 of the Livestock Water Use, 1975, published by U. S. Department of Agriculture, <br />Soil Conservation Service. The totals are presented according to main tributary ( 1401 <br />Green, 1402 Colorado, 1403 San Juan) and were disaggregated using livestock numbers <br />as a proportioning guide. The reporting areas are divided by state and main tributary. <br />The total surface area in each reporting area is treated as one unmeasured reservoir. <br /> <br />An average free water surface'(FWS) evaporation rate was taken from NOAA Technical <br />Report NWS 33, Evaporation Atras for the Contiguous 48 United States, June 1982, Map <br />3 of 4: Annual FWS Evaporation. The location used in the 1981-85 report was used to <br />determine the FWS evaporation and to assign the weather station for precipitation. The <br />net evaporation was calculated as FWS minus the greater of historical precipitation or <br />salvage value. The salvage value is assumed to be equal to the pre-reservoir losses. The <br />salvage value, surface acres and fullness factors were taken from the 1981-85 report. A <br />summary of the stockpond evaporation is shown in exhibit 12. <br /> <br />Livestock <br />Livestock water consumptive use is the daily amount of water consumed by an animal. <br />Incidental water uses or wastes were not taken into account. Livestock consumptive use <br /> <br />5 <br />