WSP12141

• File Number: 8200.300.40.A
• Description: Colorado River Compact
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 3/27/1922
• Author: Colorado River Com.
• Title: Report of the Colorado River Commission Session Held at the State Capitol of Utah
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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Chart One (See J>xhibit A, A'l~e,l'lix Salt I,aJ~e City Hearings),

represents the inflow ana

the diversion of the Sevier diver be-
5''' ag /i7f}
'Ta~i~r stations a distEnce of a~,rox-

tween Gunnison and Sevier

imately seventy miles.
~he top of the area hatched verticslly on Chart One shows
the total inflow, that is the water coming in <.t Sevier, where
the river emerges from the Canyon ~nd it &lso incll:des the in-
flow of the tributaries between Sevier and GunniOiJ.h.

~he top of the area hatched diagonally shows the outflow at
Cunni son.

This shows a loss of eic:hty-four thousand acre feet for a

distance of seventy miles, but in that distbnce there are in the

neighborhood of 65,000 acres of land irrigated.
On Chert Tuo (See :t:xhibit A, AP)endix Salt l&ke City Hearings'}

the top of the area vertically hatched shows the total amount of

water availa0le in the Sevier velley Vlhich is made up of the

water diverted by the 15 canals and the outflow at Gunnison, show-

ing an average of 5l8,000 acre feet of water available in that

section of the river and tb.e top of tllf' area vertically hatched
on Chart One shol"lS a total al-erage annual inflow of 295,000 acre
feet into the valley so that the area vertically hatched on Chart

Two sho~o the increased utilization,of the water in the Sevier

v~ Hey area which ",mounts t 0 al)~)roxima tely 75 :.oe r cent of the

total inflow into the vElley.

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