Grand Junction 1996 WCPlan

• Project Type: Water Conservation Plan
• Project Name: City of Grand Junction Water Conservation Plan
• Title: Water Conservation Master Plan
• Date: 1/17/1997
• County: Mesa
• Water Conservation - Doc Type: Complete Plan

for use, 32,200+ acre

feet of water. Of this

WATER USE BY CATEGORY

amount, 16,200 acre feet

Year 1995

y.., 2OSO

is available from the

Kannah Creek, North Fork

64%

.,3%

00% . w.

of Kannah Creek and

Whitewater Creek

23%

drainage, 2,485 acre feet

is available through

~ Municipal Us&
I2l AQrloo/lUml U..
.. Raw Water Evaporatlon/TranlportatIon LoaaoI

contract with the Clifton

Water District via

Colorado River and

13,000+ acre feet is

STORAGE WATER AVAILABLE
Using Kannah CreeK and N. Fork WaIer Only
OltlUQlltPerlod

available on Gunnison

in the next fifty years

12,000
10,000
I 8,000
" 8,000
~
~ 4,000
2,000
0

2044 2045 2Oo4EI 2047 2048 204lt 2050

River. The amount of

water available should

not dramatically change

but where and how the

water is used, will

YEAR

change. In 1995, '23

~ _~~~_~-JlercenJ::_of availahlfLYlater~-Kannah--Cre.ek ,IT", Nnrt-n ~nxJcnLT(;'lTIpah

Creek basins was being used for agricultural purposes. In the year

2050, this percentage will drop to zer.o to fulfill needed municipal

demands. Based on records during the drought periods of 1976-1977 and

1989-1990, projections of available water supplies can be

conservatively estimated. The City's Paramount water right on Kannah

Creek will produce 75% of needed municipal water for City water

customers in year 2050. The remaining 25% of needed water will come

from other direct flow rights available or if needed from carryover

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