Microsoft PowerPoint - Colorado Presentation to IBCC 10-22-07.p

• Title: Colorado Basin Roundtable Presentation to the Interbasin Compact Committee
• Date: 10/22/2007
• Interbasin CC - Doc Type: Presentations

Water Inventory of the Colorado Basin
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Grand Lake to Grand Junction
• Elevation Range: >14,000 ft (RMNP) to 4,300 ’
(state line)
• 9,830 square miles
• Accounts for 26% of streamflow leaving state
• Only Significant “ Donor ” Basin in State
• Transbasin diversions to East Slope
– 450,000 – 600,000 AFY
– Only minor transbasin inflows
– Headwaters are water - short
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