7344

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7344
• Author: Veenhuis, J. E. and D. E. Hillier.
• Title: Impact of Reservoir-Development Alternatives on Streamflow Quantity in the Yampa River Basin, Colorado and Wyoming.
• USFW Year: 1982.
• USFW - Doc Type: Lakewood, Colorado.
• Copyright Material: NO

Table 4.--Proposed and existing monthly diversions for industrial and municipal use
Control Monthly
Reservoir point Type diversion Consumptive
or of (thousands use Remarks
diversion in diversion of (percent)
fig. acre-feet)
Pleasant Valley 5 Municipal 0.91 33 Steamboat Springs, Colo. ,
Reservoir. area.
Dunckley Reservoir----- 11 Municipal .60 33 Downstream area.
E1khead Reservoir------ 13 Industrial .66 100 Cooling water for e1ectric-
and power generation plant
municipal and municipal use in
Craig, Colo. , area.
Yampa River downstream 28 Industrial .24 100 Cooling water for electric-
from Fortification power generation plant in
Creek. C ra i g, Co 1 o. , area.
Hayden powerp1ant------ 33 Industrial .60 100 Cool ing water for electric-
power generation plant.
IoN Blacktail Reservoi r---- 47 Industrial 7.85 100 Cooling water for Oak Creek
Water and Power Project.

Table 5.--Assumed monthly schedules for transmountain diversions

Control Diversions, in thousands of acre-feet
D . ... po i n t
Ivers Ions . Annual
In Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept
fig. 1 total
Vid1erL-- 39 4.70 4.70 4.70 4.70 4.70 4.70 23.6 23.6 23.6 23.6 4.70 4.70 132.0
Hog Park-- 46 0 0 0 0 0 0 7.75 7.75 7.75 7.75 0 0 31.0
lA1so referenced as Sheephorn project.