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<br /> <br />C. Water Supply <br /> <br />The historical record of annual discharges of the White River near Watson <br /> <br /> <br />(USGS stream gage located about seven (7) miles upstream of the damsite) averages <br /> <br /> <br />503,000 acre-feet for the 1924 to 1978 period. (See figure 3.) Some 42 percent <br /> <br /> <br />of the annual runoff usually occurs during the months of May and June each year as <br /> <br /> <br />shown by figure 4. <br /> <br />III. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT <br /> <br />A wealth of environmental data has been assembled for the adjacent oil <br /> <br /> <br />shale tracts Ua and Ub. White River Dam and Reservoir site borders, overlaps <br /> <br /> <br />and/or is adjacent to the north boundary of the tracts. Environmental baseline <br /> <br /> <br />data collected for the tracts began in June 1974 with the formation of the <br /> <br /> <br />White River Shale Project and these data are still being collected. The results <br /> <br /> <br />of the studies conducted over the past 5~ years by various firms and goverment <br /> <br /> <br />agencies are found in the following publications: <br /> <br />1. VTN Colorado, Inc. Denver, Colorado, White River Shale Project, First <br /> <br /> <br />Year Environmental Baseline Report, (FYEBR) Federal Prototype Oil Shale Leasing <br /> <br /> <br />Program, Tracts Ua and Ub, Utah 1976. <br /> <br />2. VTN, Colorado, Inc. Denver, Colorado White River Shale Project, Final <br />Environmental Baseline Report, October 1977. <br /> <br />3. White River Shale Project, Detailed Development Plan, Federal Lease <br />Tracts Ua and Ub. Vols. 1 and 2. <br /> <br />4. V. S. Geological Survey: Geology and Fuel Resources of the Green <br />River Formation Southeastern Uinta Basin Utah and Colorado. W. B. Cashion. <br />Professional Paper 548. 1967. <br /> <br />5. U. S. Geological Survey: Hydrologic Reconnaissance of the Southern <br /> <br />Unita Basin, Utah and Colorado, by Don Price and Louise L. Miller. Technical <br /> <br /> <br />Publication No. 49. 1975. <br /> <br />6. Soil Survey of Utah Oil Shale Tracts Ua and Ub by LeMoyne Wilson <br />and A. R. Southard dated December 1975. <br /> <br />7. State of Utah, Division of Wildlife Resources, Environmental Impact <br />Statement for White River Dam. <br /> <br />- 6 - <br />