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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Increased agricultural demands are likely to be under the <br />Cameo Call for use in the area west of Grand Junction. It <br />is predicted that for Scenario I there will be no increase, <br />for Scenario II a 5% increase (36,000 ac-ft), and for <br />Scenario III a 10% increase (72,000 ac-ft). <br /> <br />Municipal and industrial (M&I) demands were predicted to <br />increase 6,000, 10,000, and 15,000 ac-ft/yr for low, <br />medium, and high rates of development, respectively. Note <br />that the downstream M&I demands cannot be converted <br />directly into population figures as upstream M&I depletions <br />can. The reason is that M&I upstream depletions are only a <br />fraction of the total demand. The upstream depletions are <br />reduced by only the actual consumptive use, (approximately <br />0.2 ac-ft per capita), while the downstream demands must <br />account for the full demand required downstream of the <br />reservoir, regardless of the actual depletions downstream. <br />This situation applies identically to all types of <br />downstream demands. <br /> <br />Oil-shale demands are assumed to be constant and do not <br />vary seasonally. A demand of 10,000 ac-ft/yr from the <br />Colorado River was used for a 50,000 bbl/d (barrels per <br />day) industry. The water demand for each scenario is <br />summarized below. <br /> <br />Scenario <br />I <br />II <br />III <br /> <br />bbl/d <br />50,000 <br />150,000 <br />250,000 <br /> <br />Ac-ft/yr <br />10,000 <br />30,000 <br />50,000 <br /> <br />c. Minimum Stream Flow <br />According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service draft <br />Conservation Plan on the Endangered Fishes of the Upper <br />Colorado River Basins, the minimum stream flow requirement <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />3686-a/6 <br /> <br />II-10 <br />