7414 ‎(2)‎

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7414
• Author: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
• Title: Sandstone Dam and Reservoir, Municipal, Agricultural and Industrial Water Supply Project Carbon County, Wyoming
• USFW Year: 1988.
• USFW - Doc Type: Draft Environmental Impact Statement.
• Copyright Material: NO

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2 - PURPOSE AND NEED FOR ACTION
APPLICANT'S PURPOSE
2.01 The Wyoming Water Development Commission (WWDC) is
responsible for statewide water and related resource planning and
development. The WWDC has been investigating alternatives
capable of developing a portion of Wyoming's share of the flow of
the Little Snake River (figure 2-1) under the provisions of the
Upper Colorado River Basin Compact. Much of the water in the
Little Snake River basin is currently unappropriated and
undeveloped.
2.02 In 1984, the Wyoming legislature enacted legislation
(W.S. 41-2-121) to offset depletions to the Little Snake River
due to the construction of the Cheyenne Water Supply System
Stages I and II transbasin diversion projects. The legislation
called for storage in the Little Snake River basin that would
provide at least 10,000 acre-feet of water for use in the Savery
Creek drainage and 50,000 acre-feet of water for use in the
Little Snake drainage. The legislation also provided the signal
that this storage would be in place prior to the construction of
the Cheyenne Water Supply System Stage III transbasin diversion
project. The state water plan calls for a phased development for
the North Platte as follows:
1. Deer Creek Project
2. Seminoe Enlargement
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