WSP11823

• File Number: 8281.400
• Description: Colorado River Studies and Investigations -- Colorado River Depletion Projections
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 3/25/1955
• Title: Report on Depletion of Surface Water Supplied of Colorado West of Continental Divide
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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DEPLETION OF SURFACE WATER SUPPLIES

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Required subsidies on southwestern projects'
Sufficient studies by the Bureau of Reclamation have been completed
on four projects in the southwestern portion of Oolorado to determine
the construction costs and the portion of such costs which could not
be paid by the water users. The total cost of these projects would be
a;lmost $78 million, equivalent to an average of $536 per acre spread
oyer 145,000 acres, of which 38 percent is now irrigated.
. 'fhe rel~tion between the total.subsidy, including that arisi.ng from
waIver of mterest, and the depletIon of the flow of Dolores RIver and

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