WSP10878

• File Number: 8200.760
• Description: Yampa River General
• State: CO
• Basin: Yampa/White
• Water Division: 6
• Date: 1/1/1964
• Author: Clifford H Jex Engin
• Title: Report on Water Runoff and Stream Depletion of the Yampa River in Colorado - 1964
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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of the subbasin for each year of the study period:
Historic Runoff Upper Yampa Subbasin - Units-lOOO Acre Feet
Year Runoff Year Runoff
1943 904.7 1953 $29.2
1944 $51.0 1954 522.2
1945 1,243.0 1955 772.6
1946 $55.6 1956 1,033.0
1947 1,310.0 1957 1,7$1.0
194$ 1,1$3.0 195$ 1,268.0
1949 1,322.0 1959 $14.0
1950 952.0 1960 1,010.0
1951 1,016.0
1952 1,447.0 Average I, 061. 9

Figures on water runoff, stream depletion and the
estimated undepleted water supply of the subbasin are given

in the following table. The water exported from the basin

for use in the drainage basin of the main stem of the Colo-

rado for the report period averaged 2,$00 acre feet per year.

Average Undepleted Upper Yampa Subbasin Water Supply
Units Acre Feet

Yampa River Runoff Near Maybell
Inbasin Stream Depletion
Exported Water

Net Undepleted Subbasin Water Supply

1,061,900
70,400
2.$00

1,135,100

Present Water Use

A study of the arable land of the subbasin conducted
by the Bureau of Reclamation shows a total of 56,260 acres of
land was irrigated in 1937. A recent study shows the land
irrigated in 1964 totaled 70,600 acres, an increase of 14,340

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