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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NEW MEXICO'S COLORADO RIVER WATER PICTURE 1965

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~ Present uses: . . 0 $ . . . . . G e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140,000 acre-feet
16.7%

Projects under construction or
firmly committed in 1965:

Utah Construction. .

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. 25,000

Navajo Reservoir Contracts

.100,000

Town of Farmington

5 , 000 ./

San Juan-Chama

.110,000 .

Navajo Indian Irrigation

.250,000.

Navajo Indian Hogback

10 ,000 v~

Hammond . . .

.5,000 >,'

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Animas-LaPlata

25,000

Evaporation - Main stem
- Other . .

74,000
15,000

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TOTAL being used or firmly committed

.759,000 acre~feet
90.56%

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11 1/4% of 6.3* maf

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708,000 acre-feet.

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708,000 - 759,000 = -51,000 acre-feet of consumptive use overdeveloped.

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