9367 ‎(4)‎

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9367
• Author: Colorado Water Workshop.
• Title: Proceedings
• USFW Year: 1992.
• USFW - Doc Type: Colorado Water Workshop July 22-24, 1992.
• Copyright Material: NO

Kalmbach, Inc. at the request of the Upper Colorado River
Commission produced a similar result. This analysis con-
cluded that 6.3 m.a.f. of water per annum would remain for
Upper Basin consumption if 7.5 m.a.f. were delive
average at Lee's Ferry and if no additional
required at Lee's Ferry to serve the Mexican
However, if the latter assumption were. reversed to
the Interior Department's outlook, then only 5.5
water would remain for the Upper Basin. On the b
on the
water was
Treaty.58
conform to
i m.a.f. of
asis of the
Interior Department's 5.8 m.a.f. prediction, w ich may be
overly optimistic, New Mexico would receive 641,000 acre-
feet, instead of its full entitlement of 838,00 ,59 of the
7.5 m.a.f. Article III(a) Upper Basin apportionment, Colorado
would receive 2,976,000 acre-feet instead of 3,855 000,60 and
Utah would receive 1,328,000 acre-feet i stead of
1,713,500.61 Utah, for one, has apparently alre
itself to a life permanently within the conf
shrunken apportionment.62
The Upper Basin has not to date, however,
immediate hardships from this limit for the re
has yet to try to exploit its full 7.5 m.a.f. apj
Development of water uses in the Upper Basi
"unexpectedly slow."
657 F.2d 275, 293 (D.C. Cir. 1981). The Bureau c
tion estimated Upper Basin consumptive uses in 19E
m.a.f., including 686,000 acre-feet evaporative 1
resigned
s of its
perienced
i that it
tionment.
has been
. Costle,
Reclama-
at 3.840
ases, and
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