My WebLink
|
Help
|
About
|
Sign Out
Home
Browse
Search
WSPC02080
CWCB
>
Water Supply Protection
>
Backfile
>
14000-14999
>
WSPC02080
Metadata
Thumbnails
Annotations
Entry Properties
Last modified
1/26/2010 11:16:33 AM
Creation date
10/9/2006 3:09:41 AM
Metadata
Fields
Template:
Water Supply Protection
File Number
8040.950
Description
Section D General Studies - General Water Studies
State
CO
Basin
Statewide
Date
9/1/1981
Author
Colorado DNR
Title
Colorado Water Study - Background Volume - Preliminary Review Draft - Appendices
Water Supply Pro - Doc Type
Report/Study
There are no annotations on this page.
Document management portal powered by Laserfiche WebLink 9 © 1998-2015
Laserfiche.
All rights reserved.
/
145
PDF
Print
Pages to print
Enter page numbers and/or page ranges separated by commas. For example, 1,3,5-12.
After downloading, print the document using a PDF reader (e.g. Adobe Reader).
Show annotations
View images
View plain text
<br />001;)95 <br /> <br />Dr aft - 9/ 8 1 <br /> <br />within its borders and increased activity in oil and gas explora- <br /> <br />tion and drilling. Furthermore, as the Denver metropolitan area <br /> <br />continues to become the energy capital of the West and the heart <br /> <br />of Colorado economics, people will be attracted by the jobs which <br /> <br />become available as well as the Colorado climate and lifestyle. <br /> <br />Interestingly, far more jobs would be created in Denver by an <br /> <br />energy boom in the Northwest Region than in the region itself. <br /> <br />The area will become more and more of a wholesale and retail dis- <br /> <br />tribution center for the Rocky Mountain and Great Plains states; <br /> <br />additional manufacturing enterprises will be attracted (IBM and <br /> <br />Storage Technology Corporation provide major examples of past <br /> <br />decisions to locate manufacturing in the area). Douglas County <br /> <br />will be heavily affected by the development of the Mission Viejo <br /> <br />project which proposes a resident population of 250,000 people by <br /> <br />I <br />",..,' <br /> <br />the year 2000. In short, all of the indices point towards <br /> <br />massive growth in the Platte Region. <br /> <br />Northern High Plains <br /> <br />None of the counties in the Northern High Plains Region is <br /> <br />particularly populous. Specifically, the July 1979 estimate for <br /> <br />total population in the region is only 24,520, 1.6 percent of the <br /> <br />population estimated for the Platte Region. IBased on 1970 popu- <br /> <br />lation distribution, 80 percent of Cheyenne County is allocated <br /> <br />to the region.) <br /> <br />In fact, the Northern High Plains economy is <br /> <br />based almost entirely on irrigated agriculture which, in turn, is <br /> <br />largely dependent on the mining of deep, nonrenewable ground <br /> <br />water from the Ogallala aquifer. As the water table drops and <br /> <br />the price of energy soars increasing numbers of wells will stand <br /> <br />6 <br />
The URL can be used to link to this page
Your browser does not support the video tag.