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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Irrigation Use of Water
The total area of irrigated land in the Yampa River
basin in Colorado is 82,600 acres. This is 16,780 acres
more than the 65,820 reported by the Bureau of Reclamation as
irrigated in 1937. An analysis of field data shows much of
this increase occurred in the upper section of the basin and
reflects enlargement and extension of ditches and the clear-
ing of land under some of the older ditches.
A review of the results of recent studies indicates
irrigation in the basin may well be expanded by an addition-
al 67,620 acres of new land. This new land irrigation, less
an estimated 8,220 acres of land likely to be dropped from
irrigation as the result of basin development, will give a
net increase of irrigated land of 59,400 acres, which, if
added to the 82,600 acres of land presently irrigated, would
give a projected total of 142,000 acres of irrigated land.
In addition'to the new land irrigation, a supplemental
supply of water may be provided for a minimum of 10,600
acres of irrigated land in need of additional water for full
crop production. A major portion of the future irrigation
expansion would be large federal type development and in-
cludes the land under the proposed Little Snake, Juniper
and Yampa Valley projects.
The stream depletion resulting from the land pres-

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