WSP11343

• File Number: 8200.760
• Description: Yampa River General
• State: CO
• Basin: Yampa/White
• Water Division: 6
• Date: 1/1/3000
• Author: Clifford H Jex
• Title: Report on Water Runoff and Stream Depletion of the Yampa River in Colorado
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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of the study period:
Historic Runoff Little Snake Subbasin - Units 1000 Acre Feet
Year l)Total 2)Runoff 3)Runoff
Runoff Colorado Wyoming
1943 340.1 159.2 180.9
1944 391.1 183.0 208.1
1945 479.4 224.4 255.0
1946 323.8 151. 5 172.3
1947 467.0 218.6 248.4
1948 284.8 133.3 151. 5
1949 536.4 251.0 285.4
1950 442.0 206.9 235.1
1951 294.6 137.9 156.7
1952 728.5 340.9 387.6
1953 268.7 125.8 142.9
1954 178.3 83.4 94.9
1955 233.2 109.1 124.1
1956 410.9 192.3 218.6
1957 507.8 237.7 270.1
1958 425.0 198.9 226.1
1959 216.0 101.1 114.9
1960 300.3 140.5 159.8
Average 379.3 177.5 201.8
1) Runoff at the Little Snake River Lily gage.
2) Runoff Colorado is 46.8 percent of total runoff.
3) Runoff Wyoming is 53.2 percent of total runoff.

Figures on water runoff, stream depletion and the

estimated undepleted water supply of the subbasin are given

in the following table:

Average Undepleted Little Snake Subbasin Water Supply
Units-Acre Feet

Little Snake River Runoff (Colorado) 177,500
Stream Depletion (Colorado) 8,800

Net Undepleted Subbasin Water Supply 186,300

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