Laserfiche WebLink
<br /> <br />001135 <br /> <br />-3- <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />Estimated Water Requirements and Estimated Supply <br />This caption suggests two most important questions: (a) How muoh <br />vater will be required to satisfy future developllents on the Western <br />Slope? (b) What is the dependable supply? <br />2. Estimated Future Reauirements <br />The ,average annual stream depletion (consumptive use) on account <br />of possible future irrigation projects in the badn of the Colorado River <br />in Colorado may be broken into the following units: <br />A. Projects now in tne Upper Colorado River Storage Bill <br />will use 62,400 acre-feet. These are: <br /> <br />l',,; <br />~ <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Paonia <br />SlDi th Fork ' <br />Pine River Extension <br />Florida <br />Silt <br />Sub-total <br /> <br />9,000 <br />7,500 <br />27,200 <br />12, 900 <br />5.800 <br />62,400 <br /> <br />B, Projects on the Gunnison River having a benefit-eost ratio. <br />of 1.0 or higher, and which will require the irdqator to repay <br />at least nine percent of the construction eoat, will uae 68,500 <br />acre-feet. They are: <br /> <br />Fruitgrowers Extension <br />East River <br />Frui tland Mesa <br />Bostwick Park <br />Dallas Creek: <br />Sub-total <br /> <br />5,540 <br />2,100 <br />25,000 <br />4,800 <br />31.000 <br />08 , 500 <br /> <br />WThe benefit-cost ratio is the sum of the annual net benefits resulting <br />from the construction of the projeot divided by the annual equivalent <br />. values of construction costs. It may be expressed as 1.35 to 1 or just <br />as 1.35. <br />