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<br />, New Mexico's coal-fired power plants with a capacity of 6,850,000
<br />KW and its coal gasification plants with an output of 1,788 million cu-
<br />bic feet of gas a day would use 154,000 acre-feet of Upper Basin water
<br />a year.
<br />Wyoming's coal-fired power plants with a capacity of 5,360,000 RW,
<br />its coal gasification plant with an output of 250 million cubic feet of
<br />qas per day, and its shale plant with an output of 125,000 barrels of
<br />oil per day would use 116,500 acre-feet of Upper Basin water.
<br />And Arizona's Navajo coal-fired power plant at page with a capacity
<br />of 2,310,000 KW would use 34,100 acre-feet of Upper Basin water.
<br />These projections are based on a coal-fired electric generating
<br />plant using 15 acre-feet of water per year to produce one megawatt or
<br />1000 kilowatts of power at 85% plant load factor. on a 100,000 barrel-
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<br />per-day shale oil plant us~nq 17,400 acre-feet of water annually:
<br />and on a 250 million cubic feet-per-day coal ga.sification plant using
<br />15,000 acre-feet of water a year. 0195
<br />O'J.'WSR USES PROJECTSD
<br />For planning purposes in allowing for the central Arizona Project
<br />and other development, the Interior Department estimates that the Upper
<br />Basin will have available to it 5.8 million acre-feet of Colorado River
<br />annually for consumptive use. It estimates today that depletions from
<br />all sources from the upper Basin above Lee Ferry, Ariz., total 3,187,
<br />000 acre-feet. It charges the Upper Basin 520,000 acre-feet for main-
<br />ste~1reservoir evaporation, making the total utilization 3,707,000 acre
<br />annucu..Ly
<br />feet/at the present ti1lle. The two major uses of water in the Upper Ba-
<br />sin are irrigation water for agriculture, which uses up 2,153,000 acre-
<br />feet of water annually, and 754,000 acre-feet diverted out of the Upper
<br />annually
<br />Basin/for use elsewhere, with the major diversions being in Colorado,
<br />utah and New Mexico, according to the 'teem.
<br />IQOking to the future, the water for Energy Management Team esti-
<br />annually
<br />mated, in addition to the 873,650 acre-feet of water needed/for pending
<br />energy developments in the Upper Basin, an additional 750,000 acre-feet
<br />would ~e needed for municipal use, an additional 800,000 acre-feet for
<br />irri~tion, and 159,000 ac~e-feet for fish, wildlife, recreation, wate~
<br />quahty and esthet:1.cs by year 2000. --?
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