WSP01205

• File Number: 8281.300
• Description: Colorado River Studies and Investigations -- Colorado River Consumptive Uses and Losses Reports
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 1/1/1966
• Title: Wyoming Colorado River Water Picture 1965
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Data

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UTAH'S COLORADO RIVER WATER PICTUPE 1965

Present uses: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .579,000 acre-feet
33.79%

Projects and uses under construction
or firmly committed in 1965:

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CUP - Bonneville Unit
- Upa1co Unit
- Jensen, Unit
- Uintah Unit

159,000
18,000
9,000
4~,000

14,000

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Emery County

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Evaporation - Main stem
- Other

152,000 /
12,000

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Kaiparowits Plateau power plant

102,000 '

TOTAL being used or firmly committed. . . . . . . . . . . 1,085,000 acre-feet
63.32%

23% of 6.3* maf ~ 1,449,000 acre-feet

1,449,000 - 1,085,000 = 364,000 acre-feet of consumptive use left for
development as of 1965'

* 6.3 maf of consumptive use assumed to be physically available as total
supply for Upper Division States. (See Tipton Peport)