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o (h) 3 't ;: - 13 - . One of the most profound impacts of future high levels of energy production will fall upon individual communities in northwest Colorado. There will be a very rapid growth of these communities, as shown in the following table which ranks communities by their percent growth to 1990. COMMUNITIES BY THEIR PER CENT GROWTH TO 1990 (Population in Hundreds of Persons) Projected 1990 Projected Population Population as Per Actual Population Level in Community Cent of 1978 Base Level in 1978 1985 1990 Rifle 1509% 23 373 347 Grand Valley 825 4 29 33 Silt 800 10 80 80 Meeker 742 19 103 141 Yampa 600 3 12 18 Rangley 558 19 140 106 Hayden 513 15 49 77 Hotchkiss 438 8 23 35 Carbondale 415 20 53 83 Craig 3.77 71 257 268 The implications of a high level of energy production in Colorado, with attention focused on the northwest portion of the state, go beyond the actual levels of energy produced and the basic increases in population for the counties in this part of Colorado. When the four types of energy production being projected are combined and the impacts then analyzed, the synergistic impact of these separate energy types becomes very important. Anyone of these energy types, developing against a base of low energy production bar the other three types, would have a significantly lower impact. The full range of impacts emanating from a high level of total energy production covers a wide range of conditions. Community Impact In looking at the high development scenario northwest Colorado will, by 1990, be producing 58 million tons of coal per year where it currently produces 13 million tons per year, 3.3 million pounds of uranium where it currently produces 2.2 million tons per year, and 360,000 barrels of kerogen per day where it currently produces none. This level of development will produce approximately 35,000 basic jobs and an additional number of non-basic or support jobS. The new population that will result from the employment influx will reach 150,000 new people in an area which presently is several thousand people short of 150,000. All this, it must be remembered, will be layered upon an area which is currently undergoing rapid growth for reasons other than ~- energy development. This "normal growth" alone could account for an additional ./ 60,000 new people arriving during the 1980's. It is this rapid growth and the effects which it will have upon northwest COlorado; the swelling of an estimated 1980 population of 150,000 to 360,000; the money, mechanism, support systems and human effort which define for purposes of this exercise, the concept of impact.