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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />~ <br />'=> <br />~ <br />~... <br /> <br />ANTICIPATED EFFECTS OF ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENTS (continued) <br /> <br />by slurry pipeline from Alton, Utah, and would burn approximately 6,000 <br />tons (5400 t) of coal a day. The project was scheduled for completion by <br />1979 but has been delayed because of environmental issues. The project has <br />been assuMed to be on line in 1990. <br /> <br />16. Between the Colorado River at Lees Ferry, Arizona, Virgin River at <br />Littlefield, Arizona, and Colorado River below Hoover Dam, Arizona- <br />Nevada <br /> <br />Southern Nevada Water Project, Nevada. The first stage of the South- <br />ern Nevada Water Project was completed by the \~ater and Power Resources <br />Service and was accepted by the Colorado River Commission on November I, <br />1971. The project is operated by the Las Vegas Valley Water District to <br />provide supplemental municipal and industrial water to the cities of Las <br />Vegas, North Las Vegas, Henderson, and Boulder Ci ty, and to Nell i s Ai r <br />Force Base. It will also provide water to the potential Eldorado Valley <br />Development. The second stage is under construction and is expected to be <br />completed in 1982. <br /> <br />The total annual diversion and depletion anticipated by the year 2010 <br />for the Southern Nevada Water Project and the other existing systems in <br />southern Nevada are shown in the following tabulation. <br /> <br />Southern Nevada Water Project <br />Basic Management Incorporated <br />Pipeline <br />Boulder City Pipeline <br />National Park Sevice Pipelines <br />Total <br /> <br />Maximum Diversion <br />(Acre-feet) ClObmJ) <br />299,000 369 <br /> <br />Net Depletion <br />(Acre-feet) OObmJ) <br />209,300 25~ <br /> <br />41,277 51 <br />5,890 7 <br />2,000 2 <br />34B,167 429 <br /> <br />41,277 51 <br />5,890 7 <br />2,000 2 <br />258,467 31B <br /> <br />Prior to 1975, no creditable return flow from these diversions <br />has been listed in the "Compilation of Records in Accordance with Article <br />V of the Decree of the Supreme Court of the United States in Arizona <br />v. California." Starting in calendar year 1975 a method for determina- <br />tion of a credit for surface return flows was made to Nevada for Colorado <br />River diversions into Las Vegas Valley. The resulting values for 1977 <br />and 1978 were as follows: <br /> <br />55 <br />