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<br />'- <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />"' <br />. . <br /> <br />- 52 - <br /> <br />'- <br /> <br />location of the right in the basin, not 12 months of each <br /> <br />and every year, as Deseret has assumed. <br /> <br />'- <br /> <br />Second, all senior rights are not 100 percent con- <br /> <br />sumptive. Water used for irrigation rarely consumes more <br /> <br />than 40-50 percent, with the unconsumed portion returning <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />to the river. Domestic and power uses consume almost no <br /> <br />water. <br /> <br />As the Colorado State Engineer notes: <br /> <br />'-- <br /> <br />"The Rangely Project is located near <br />the stateline, thus, it will benefit from <br />return flows of senior upstream water <br />rights. More importantly, it cannot be <br />significantly curtailed by calls from <br />downstream senior water rights since few <br />water rights exist between the project <br />and the stateline. If the project were <br />located near the headwaters of the White <br />River Basin, the yield would be consider- <br />ably less due to smaller flows being <br />available and more senior water rights <br />downstream." Letter from Jeris A. <br />Danielson, State Engineer, to Greg Graff, <br />Environmental Coordinator (BLM), dated <br />March 31, 1980. <br /> <br />Third, certain upstream senior water rights con- <br /> <br />.flict with each other because reservoir sites lie in the <br /> <br />same approximate location or will compete for the same <br /> <br />water. When such situations exist, one or more water <br /> <br />rights may not be developed. <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />As we mention above, a number of these studies <br /> <br />have employed assumptions about upstream development <br /> <br />which are grossly exaggerated. Even then, such studies <br /> <br />0380 <br />