9326

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9326
• Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
• Title: Draft Biological Opinion for Ute Water/Plateau Creek Pipeline Replacement Project, Mesa County, Colorado.
• USFW Year: 1996.
• USFW - Doc Type: Denver.
• Copyright Material: NO

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Table 2. Volumes of water (in hundreds of acre-feet) needed per 10-day period
to produce hydro-graphs recommended for the 15-mile reach during the spring
runoff period (April, May, June and July). AP-1 represents the first 10 days
in April; AP-2, the second 10 days, etc.
Rate 25% 25% 30% 20%
Exceedance 25% 50% 80% 100%
AP-1 317 276 295 245
AP-2 563 450 416 343
AP-3 1,029 726 634 519
MA-1 1,573 1,104 957 892
MA-2 2,073 1,817 1,516 1,488
MA-3 2,944 2,846 2,267 2,085
JN-1 3,197 2,770 2,566 1,778
JN-2 3,209 3,066 2,368 1,404
JN-3 2,914 2,643 1,818 893
JL-1 2,060 1,617 990 470
JL-2 1,328 977 578 246
JL-3 955 707 372 194
ENVIRONMENTAL BASELINE
The environmental baseline includes the past and present impacts of all
Federal, State, and private actions and other human activities in the action
area; the anticipated impacts of all proposed Federal projects in the actin
area that have already under o ion 7 consultation; and the impact
of State or private action contemporaneous w~ h the consultation process.
In formulating this opinion, the Service considered adverse and beneficial
effects likely
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