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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 />1)93045 <br /> <br />ditches all head on the river with little opportunity of the <br />re-use of return flow water, diversion demands of the ditches <br />create a point of minimum or critical flow as far as the use <br />of Uhite River water is concerned. Any new or expanded all- <br />season use of water upstream from the four ditches will require <br />provision for the storage of sno;vmelt runoff. <br />Figures of the preceeding table indicate that basin <br />runoff, if adequately controlled for seasonal use, would provide <br />for the anticipated water requirement for the U. S. Bureau of <br />Reclamation Yellow Jacket Project as planned and the anticipated <br />water requirement for a shale oil industry of a magnitude of a <br />million to one and one quarter n,illion barrels 'per day. Estin,ates <br />of industrial water diversion requirement and consumptive use <br />are based on information given in a report to the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board by engineer consultants Cameron and Jones, <br />Inc., dated July, 1959. <br />The figures also indicate that at such time as the <br />level of basin development as discussed in this report is <br />attained, the available water supply of the Upper Division of <br />the basin in low runoff years will be committed. Should basin <br />industrial development be greater than that discussed requiring <br />the diversion of additional water from the Upper Division, or <br />should any water be exported from tributary streams of the Upper <br />Division for use outside the IIhite River Basin, it will be <br />necessary that holdover reservoir storage be developed at a <br />location in the Upper Division of the Basin. <br /> <br />-18- <br />