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U <br />1.04 The proposed Sandstone Dam and Reservoir on Savery Creek <br />would supply the Little Snake River basin with a firm annual <br />yield of 20,000 acre-feet of .water for industry, and average <br />annual yields of 12,000 acre-feet for agriculture and 200 <br />acre-feet for municipal-use.. The dam would be located on .Savery <br />Creek approximately 8.5 road miles north of the town of Savery, <br />Wyoming. The dam would impound a reservoir of approximately <br />52,000 acre-feet over 960 acres of Land. The project would be <br />constructed on federal::and private lands. <br />1.05 It is estimated that any industry that might be interested <br />in water from the proposed Sandstone Reservoir would require at <br />least 20,000 acre-feet per year of firm .yield. Agricultural <br />demands are defined by the WWDC to be for those Lands having a <br />currently valid Wyoming water right. Releases from the reservoir <br />would 6e limited to providing a supplemental supply equal to 0.5 <br />cubic feet per second (cfs) per 70 acres per year. The WWDC <br />estimates that the municipalities of Dixon and Baggs will require <br />a supplemental supply of 200 acre-feet per year by 2016. The <br />Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) requests that flows in <br />Savery Creek below Sandstone Dam be not less than 24 cfs at any <br />time. <br />1.06 Two project scenarios of reservoir operation were <br />considered and compared to environmental base line conditions. <br />One scenario assumed that the proposed Sandstone Reservoir <br />releases would be used only for municipal and supplemental <br />irrigation purposes. The other project scenario- included the <br />additional release of 20,000 acre-feet per year for an industrial <br />user in the vicinity of Baggs, Wyoming. The project would result <br />in average annual net depletions of 13,394 acre-feet per year and <br />30,600 acre-feet per year, respectively, for the two project <br />scenarios. -- ~ -. • <br />1-2 <br />