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<br />""" <br />C) <br />U":l <br />.-t <br /> <br />\ <br /> <br />Table 41.- Potential water requirement, Whitewater Subbasin 1/ <br /> <br />B.:': <br /> <br />Net crop consumptive use 2) <br /> <br />7,909 acre-feet <br /> <br />Riparian vegetation, nonbeneficial <br />phreatophytes, seeped lands, and <br />im:idental areas <br /> <br />9,205 acre-feet <br /> <br />Mllnicipal supply exported from subbasin <br />to city of Grand Junction and town <br />of Fruita <br /> <br />11,628 acre-feet <br /> <br />Dther municipal, domestic and livestock <br />use and evaporation and forseeable <br />recreation development <br /> <br />2,171 acre~feet <br /> <br />Total potential requirement <br /> <br />30,913 acre-feet <br /> <br />1/ Exclusive of industrial use. <br />1/ 5,800 aeres. <br /> <br />Opportunities for Developments Through Watershed Protection <br />and Flood Prevention and Other USDA Authorities <br /> <br />Very little opportunity exists in the Whitewater subbasin for project- <br />type development. Most of the agricultural land is located in small <br />scattered tracts along the Gunnison River, Kahnah Creek, Whitewater <br />Creek and Escalante Creek, and is generally not suited to project-type <br />action. <br /> <br />- 100 - <br />