4001

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 4001
• Author: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
• Title: Colorado River System Consumptive Uses and Losses Report 1976-1980.
• USFW Year: 1981.
• USFW - Doc Type: Washington, D.C.
• Copyright Material: NO

TABLE LC-7
Lower Colorado River Basin
Estimated Water Use by States. Major Tributaries. and Types of User
1979
(1,000 acre-feet)
Agriculture Municipal and Industrial Export
Reservoir Stockpond Evap. Mineral Thermal Ou[aide Inside
State Tributary Evaporation Irrigation and Livestock Total Resources Electric Power Other?/ Total S ystem System Total
Ariz. Little Colorado 29.8 80.4 10.1 90.5 3.7 8.0 15.3 27.0 0.0 17.4 164.7
Virgin 0.3 21.2 0.3 21.5 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 21.9
Bill Williams 34.8 26.5 1.1 27'.6 2.2 0.0 0.8 3.0 0.0 0.0 65.4
Gila 343.0 3,208.5 29.5 3,238.0 71.9 18.3 299.8 390.0 0.0 (-14.8) 3,956.2
Remaining Area 1.4 131.3 10.2 141.5 2.4 0.0 9.5 11.9 0.0 0.0 154.8
Total 409.3 3,467.9 51.2 3,519.1 80.2 26.3 325.5 432.0 0.0 2.6 4,363.0
Nev. Muddy 5.7 28.2 0.8 29.0 0.0 4.4 0.2 4.6 O.U U.0 39.3
Remaining Area 0.0 50.3 0.9 51.2 2.9 5.3 52.2 60.4 0,0 (-2.6) 109.0
Total 5.7 78.5 1.7 80.2 2.9 9.7 52.4 65.0 0.0 -2.6 148.3
C,J
~ N. Mex.
Little Colorado
3.4
7.8
1.8
9.6
0.7
0.0
2.5
3.2
0.0
0.0
16.2
Gila 0.6 6.0 1.6 7.6 0.03/ 0.0 6.0 6`0 0,0 0.0 14.2
Total 4.0 13.8 3.4 17.2 0.7 0.0 8.5 9.2 0.0 0.0 30.4
Utah Virgin 4.0 53.7 1.0 54.7 0.0 0.0 2.2 2.2 4.4 0.0 65.3
Remaining Area 0.1 6.4 0.1 6.5 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 6.7
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Total 4.1 60.1 1.1 61.2 0.0 0.0 2.3 2.3 4.4 0,0 72.0
Lower Little Colorado 33,2 88.2 11.9 100.1 4.4 8.0 17.8 30.2 0.0 17.4 180.9
Basin Virgin 4.3 74.9 1.3 76.2 0,0 0.0 2.3 2.3 4.4 0.0 87.2
Muddy 5.7 28.2 0.8 29.0 0.0 4.4 0.2 4.6 0.0 0.0 39.3
Bill Williams 34.8 26.5 1.1 27.6 2.2 0.0 0.8 3.0 0.0 0.0 65.4
Gila 343.6 3,214.5 31.1 3,245.6 71.9 18.3 305.8 396.0 0.0 (-14.8) 3,970.4
Remaining Area 1.5 188.0 11.2 199.2 5.3 5.3 61.8 72.4 0.0 (-2.6) 270.5
Total 423.1 3,620.3 57.4 3,677.7 83.8 36.0 388,7 508.5 4.4 0.0 4,613.7
1/ Excludes Colorado River ma instream and flood plain. A portion of the consumptive uses shown herein are sati sfied by ground water
overdraft .
2/ Includes rural, urban, and other indus trial uses.
3/ This value is included in the "Other" Municipal and Industrial Uees category, as found in the annua l report by the New Mexico
Interstate Stream Commission as requ ired by the Supreme Court decree in Arizona vs, California.