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<br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />003038 <br /> <br />Potential Water Use <br />Projections of the quantity of water which may <br />ultimately be required in the basin is based primarily on <br />analysis of three major water use potentials. Each will re- <br />quire a relatively large quantity of water. The principal <br />potential use is for the production of shale oil and associated <br />products from the shale deposits of the Piceance Creek Basin. <br />A second potential is the irrigation of a large acreage of <br />arable land in the general vicinity of the Town of Neeker. <br />The third potential is the mining of coal, the generation of <br />thermo electrie power and other potential water uses which <br />may develop in connection with the production and the market- <br />ing of petroleum and coal by-products. <br />Since the water requirement for a shale oil industry <br />will be influenced by the several presently undetermined factors <br />of the size of the ultimate industry, the extent of the process- <br />ing of the shale oil at the site of production, the production <br />and processing of by-products and the magnitude of necessary <br />personnel to n,an the industry, the several estimates of water <br />needs prepared by representatives of industry vary from less <br />than a hundred thousand acre feet to several hundred thousand <br />acre feet. Should the rate of shale oil production in Colorado <br />reach two million barrels per day \~th one half of this or one <br />million barrels per day produced from oil shale operations in <br />the White River Basin, and should other basin industry such as min- <br />ing of coal, the generation of the~,oelectric power and the pro- <br />duction and n,arketing of by-products of coal and petroleun, <br /> <br />-11- <br />