WSPC00902

• File Number: 8200.700
• Description: Colorado River Basin - General Publications
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 9/1/1979
• Author: DOI-BOR
• Title: Impacts on the Lower Colorado River Region Resulting from Alternative Levels of Emerging Energy Development in the Upper Colorado River Region
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Table 3. - Average annual impacts on Lower Colorado River Region
economy due to reduced water deliveries to CAP agriculture,
year 2000

Reduced Reduction in
annua 1 CAP Reduction in CAP total regional
Item deliveries 1/ net farm income earnings 3/ 4/
(1,000 acre-ft) y ]..! (x $1,000) ($1,000) -
A lternat ive I
Medium energy 87 $1,131 $2 ,446
with low
depletion
A lternat ive II
Accelerated 88 1,144 2,480
energy with
medium deple-
tion
Alternative III
Acce I erated 177 2,301 4,973
energy with
high depletion

1/ From linear regression of CRSS model average annual deliveries.
Deliveries equal 90 percent of diversion.
2/ Based on 1985 projected ground water and CAP water cost differen-
tial of $13/acre-foot. (Letter from Arizona Water Commission, dated
April 10, 1979.)
3/ Values neither discounted nor adjusted for inflation.
4/ Impact estimates developed by OYRAM, BLM, Oenver Service Center,

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