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<br />feet. The Wyoming legislature typically requires a minimum pool <br />equal to 20 percent of the normal storage. All hydrologic <br />modeling efforts considered a minimum recreation pool of 20 <br />percent of the normal storage. The Wyoming Game and Fish <br />Department (WGFD) has determined. that the proposed minimum pool <br />is adequate for a reservoir fishery. <br />3.35 WWDC established potential agricultural, municipal and <br />industrial demands within the Little Snake River basin to be <br />provided by the proposed Sandstone Reservoir. It was estimated <br />that any industry that might be interested in water-from the <br />proposed Sandstone Reservoir would require at least 20,000 acre- <br />feet firm annual yield. Industrial diversions from natural flow <br />at Baggs were not considered to be part of the 20,000 acre--feet <br />for computation of reservoir yield. <br />3.36 The potential demand from agriculture was determined using <br />existing irrigated lands with valid Wyoming water rights. These <br />water rights would be senior to those associated. with the <br />proposed Sandstone project and as such are entitled to 2 cfs per <br />70 acres. The hydrologic model insured that these water rights <br />would be satisfied prior to storing water in the Sandstone <br />reservoir. The agricultural demand, from the Sandstone project, <br />was assumed to be 0.5 cfs per 70 acres for all of these defined <br />irrigated lands. The irrigation season is expected to be <br />April 26 through September 30 of each. year. <br />3.37 SWEC (1486a) estimated, that the municipalities of Dixon and <br />Baggs would require a supplemental supply of 200 acre-feet per <br />year by 2016. These municipalities in the Little Snake River <br />basin would require .the additional water in equal increments <br />during the months of July, August and September when .overall <br />water use is greatest. <br />3-12 <br />