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<br /> <br /> <br />Footrotes: Table 2 <br /> <br />1EstirMted averag3 anrwl repletions lMer 1979 anlitions of reveloprrent. fxcllXEs evaporation fran reservoirs. <br />2u-.depleterl averag3 anrual water SJWly. Base f1gJres usa:! are: fxpJrts!ilTIJorts - 1976-1979 anrual a-.eragl depletions: 1979oonditions; Basin <br />(Xrt;flow - 1971-1978 anrual averag3. 0 <br />31976-1979 anrual averag3. This period was chos:n becdJse it reflects tre g-eater exports of recent )-ears. fxpJrts 00 not reflect "pass- ~ <br />throughs" of water orig!ndting in arotrer basin (e.g., 10,377 acre-feet per year of Colorcm Malnsten water !'hIch are passed ttrooifl tre Arkansas c., <br />River Basin to the South Platte). W <br />4figJreS given as "available" are purely theoretlcal as interstate coopacts limit tte aTDlJ1ts of water a:tually availcble to ooloralo In various >-' <br />basins. - <br />5Irrigation OJnsutptive use is based on tte ass.J1jJtion that all crq>s except [astJJre recehe fullllater, except as specifie;! in NJte (A) to fol- <br />low. Associate;! reservoir evaporation 15 not ircluded. It is felt that tre first ass..rnption and tre se::ord anlssion terd to counterbalance e<rll <br />otrer to give as realistic a picture of actual COl\Sl.Il'Pl:ion as pra::ticabl~. . <br />6Rural cbnestlc, nuniclpal ard irdustrial corwnpthe uses ircludirg stean electrIc. fJQ::ludes related reservoir losses except in Coiorcm Ri-.er <br />Basin. <br />7For the Arkansas, Missouri and Rio Grande River Basins represents tre am of "otrer" ard 'Ra::reatIon, Fish, ard Wildlife" fran tre llestwide <br />StlXly (U. S. D::partrrent of Interior, Critical Water ProblesT5 facing the Eleven \\estern States, Apr1l1975, p. 260, tible VI-10). Charges sinre <br />tI-e1 &e pres.med to re insiglificant. for the Coiorado River Basin represents an interp;>latlon of data for fish ard llildlife only fran tre \\ffiS <br />ConSUlptlve Losses and Uses fleP.:>rt and tte OICB internal estirMtes. In tte case of tre Coior<rlJ Malnsten, 19,000 acre-feet per )-ear of OJra::ante <br />reservoir evClXlration &e irciuded. <br />81971-1978 anrwl averag3, except for San JJan \\hich 15 1971-1977. <br />9rnternal basin diversion fran I>brth Platte s..dJbasln to South Platte s..dJbasln averaged 21,90 acre-feet anrually retlleen 1971-1978. Most of that <br />was fron tte Laramie Rher !'hich j:>ins tte I>brth Platte in IIYanirg. ' <br />1~ on iJl analysis of Color<rlJ ~ of fogriculture 1977 data, 58% of Se;lgwlck County Irri!)3te;! a::rea93 was ass.med to depend on irriga- <br />tion with tributary water. 42% was ass.med to rely on rontributary g:cxrd water. <br />11The Kansas River SJbbasin corresponds, for practical purposes, to the li>rtl-ern High Plains Region. Best estirMtes for 1979 are that ~3,ooo <br />acre-feet of rontrlbutary water am 25,000 a::re-feet of tributary water are p.JTped to Irrigate crq>s in tte region. Ibntributary water is net <br />Irciude:J in this tct>le but discusse:l separately in the text. In alditlon, dl~fon rECOrds and expert opinion indlCllte that retv.een 1971-1980 <br />an arruai avera93 of 30,809 <cre-feet of SJITCK:e water was diverted for Irri!)3tlOn purposes. AssJmlrg 4~ consurption, an anrual aver~ of . ' <br />13,864 acre-feet \\ere cons.rred. AsSJnlng 91% OOns.J1lltion of tributary ground water, tre total averagl anrual tribltary water cons..rned is 37,017 <br />acre-feet. <br />12These flg.Jres reflect net exports ard ilTIJorts only, not pass-throJghs (e.g., tte anrual a\eragl of 10,377 acre-feet mich are expJrta:l to the <br />Arkansas BasIn am tl'en to tte South Platte). <br />13ktual 1979 water con.surption for stean electric 93f1eration in t.pper Malnstem was 2SQ a::re-feet. For San Jum, m acre-feet. For Rio Grande, <br />33) acre-feet. <br />14Ass..rnes 658,000 a::re-feet ronbeneflcial cons..nption In tre closa:! basin plus 21,000 acre-feet for 'Ra::reation, fish ard Wildlife, and Other." <br />1~resents ''Coloracb water" only. Input fron tew l-'exlco has teen SJbtracted.' , <br />1~epresents "Coloracb water" only. The ifllUl: from \\yanirg's pJrtions of the Q:-een Rher, Little Snake Ri\er and Vennillion Creek hae reen sb- <br />tracta:l. <br />17IrcllXles internal basin dlerslon of 116,<XXl acre-feet anrually fran the lhlores River to the San:Jum Ri-.er. <br />18Reflects average arrual expJrt to I'ew l-'exlco of &1,415 acre-feet (1971-1978) plus 2,000 acre-feet expJrt to Rio GraJIle Basin. <br />19rJ-e difference retlleen exports ard lirp:lrts is &1,000 acre-feet lirp:lrte;! anrually by t.ew Mexico ttro4l the San :Ju3n..ChaTa (%'oject. <br />