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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2.14 Th.e City of Cheyenne, Wyoming is another large. user of
water from the Little Snake River basin. The Stage I collection
system was completed in 1964 and diverts about 7,200 acre-feet
annually through a tunnel to Hog Park Reservoir in the North
Platte River basin (figure 2-3). The Stage II collector system
is currently under construction and will divert an estimated
additional 20,000 acre-feet annually into the Hog Park Reservoir.
Stage I of the diversion system has water right priorities of
1954 and 1964, and has often been regulated during the latter
part. of the irrigation season. However, the majority of
Cheyenne's diversions occur during the peak runoff months. when
water is .available.
2.15 The towns of Baggs and Dixon also use Little Snake River
water (table 2-1). However, neither community has raw water
storage of any significance. Baggs currently obtains its water
supply from an infiltration gallery in the Little Snake River
alluvial aquifer. Dixon's water supply is a direct diversion
from the river.. Some Dixon residents rely on private wells.
Baggs has storage capacity for 317,000 gallons of finished water,
and ,Dixon has Storage capacity for 200,000 gallons of finished
water. Because Baggs has only junior ground water priorities and
Dixon has only a junior surface water priority, both communities
have experienced water shortages during extended periods of low
flow.
PROJECTIONS OF WATER DEMAND
2.16 The need exists for additional municipal water supplies in
the Little Snake River basin. However, the calculated level of
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