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<br />001875 <br /> <br />~1i; <br /> <br />"'-.:,,;.~. <br />i:j~; <br /> <br />',:,,'~':-:;.' <br />~:?<: <br /> <br /> <br />"-'.....;. <br /> <br />IN REPLY REFER TO: <br /> <br />United States Department of the Interior <br /> <br />GEOLOGICAL SURVEY <br />Box 25046 <br />Denver Federal Center <br />Denver. Colorado 80225 <br /> <br />:'~.::.~\. <br />~:"'-:;:~5: <br /> <br />I~ <br /> <br />Water Resources Division <br />Colorado District <br />Mail Stop 415 <br /> <br />;:;~j:.j; <br /> <br />April 30, 1976 <br /> <br />; <br /> <br />INFORMATION FOR THE. PRESS <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Work-plan reports for assessing impacts of coal develop- <br />ment on water resources of the Yampa River basin released <br /> <br />.~}~}!. <br />~':::-::. -:::". <br />:.S~;:~-: <br /> <br />J. E. Biesecker, District Chief <br />Water Resources Division <br />U.S. Geological Survey <br />Building 53, Mail Stop 415 <br />Box 25046, Denver Federal Center <br />Lakewood, Colorado 80225 <br />Telephone: 234-3815 <br /> <br />J?ECEIVED <br /> <br />MAY 1 0 197G <br />COLD ; <br />CONSERvA'nui, <br /> <br />t~~t) <br />).::~;~;~ <br />;:;;..-......- <br />~t:;;~~ <br />f~ <br />~i~f~ <br />{W~t <br />-:::~_:.~:~- . <br /> <br />RELEASE DATE: Immediately <br /> <br />FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> <br />Two reports describing a work plan for an_ investigation of the potential <br />environmental effects of developing energy resources in the Yampa River <br />basin in northwestern Colorado and south-central Wyoming have been <br />released by the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior. <br />This investigation could aid studies in other energy-rich areas in the <br />West, according to Dr. Timothy D. Steele,- project chief and senior <br />author of the reports. <br /> <br />':':-;~-." ; <br />~~::;~~f <br /> <br />i <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />t~;(~~1~ <br />;ti~;.':::: <br />;~~/~;~,; <br />~:;-!""";,~':- <br />""'.-' ,".'- <br />- -> <br />?-:;'~::::.:'-. <br />-:;::: '.~,:; <br />. ;.- <br />:~'~-;~~:-:;.; <br /> <br />Designed primarily to assess the availability and quality of the basin's <br />water resources, the 2~-year U.S. Geological Survey project will also <br />evaluate potential environmental and selected social and economic im- <br />pacts of various energy-resource development plans proposed by mining <br />and power companies. Most of the basin's mineral rights are federally <br />controlled, and principal impending development involves extraction of <br />strippable coal reserves in the basin, estimated by the U.S. Bureau of <br />Mines to exceed 950 million tons. Annual coal-mining production in the <br />basin was 4.4 million tons in 1975, and this is estimated to exceed 20 <br />million tons by 1990. As a result, the present population in the basin <br />(estimated at 18,000) may increase as much as three-fold. <br /> <br />,.\O,-UTIOA,l <br /> <br />"'~~o <br />~ '% <br />'" "' <br />S2 m <br />~ ~ <br />... i!: <br />-......~ ~. <br />1;>;>6_191'" e <br /> <br />'. ~:..:;.....:.:' <br /> <br />:", ~- :~. -~;. <br />;{.;--\< <br /> <br />;;:.,":. <br /> <br />.'.,".... <br /> <br />-- <br />~';-.". <br />:~:}<-. <br /> <br />:' ~- <br /> <br />