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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COLORADO'S COLORADO RIVER WATER PICTURE 1965

Present uses:

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1,786,000 acre-feet
46.31%

Projects and uses under construction
or firmly committed in 1965:

Savery-Pot Hook Project

26,000 ./

Hayden Steam Plant

12,000/

Fruitland Mesa Project

28,000 /'

Bostwich Park Project

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3,000,

Homestake Creek Div

74,000

Pueblo-Eagle River

3,000

Fryingpan-Arkansas Project

70 ,000 ~-

Silt Project

6,000 v

Colorado Springs-Blue River

6,000 v'
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240,000

Denver-Blue, Moffat, Williams, Eagle, and Piney

Englewood-Moffat Tunnel .

10,000 '

Independence Pass Tunnel

14,000 '

_2~ne ~iver Extension Lands

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Oil Shale Development

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Evaporation - Main Stem

340,000

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TOTAL being used or firmly committed. . . . . . . . . . . . 2,876,000

51.75% of 6.3* maf =

3,260,000, acre-feet
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= 384,000 acre-feet of consumptive use left for
1965.

acre-feet
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3,260,000 - 2,876,000
development as of

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