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Water Supply Protection
File Number
8220.131.J
Description
Yellow Jacket Project
State
CO
Basin
Yampa/White
Water Division
6
Date
1/1/1966
Title
Water Quality Control Study of the Yellow Jacket Project
Water Supply Pro - Doc Type
Report/Study
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<br />00 <br /> <br />..:....) <br /> <br />C\l <br />N <br /> <br />Hay <br />Winter Wheat <br />Barley <br />Spring Wheat <br /> <br />86,531 acres <br />41,582 acres <br />16,384 acres <br />7,969 acres <br /> <br />An additional two and one-half million acres of public land <br />grazing districts managed by the Bureau of Land Management. <br />nearly a million acres of national forest in the area. <br /> <br />is in <br />There are <br /> <br />The average value per acre of farms has increased from $18.61 in <br />1949 to $20.05 in 1959. At the same time the average value per farm <br />has grown from $33,621 to $74,831, which in part reflects the increasing <br />size of farms. <br /> <br />Mining employs 14 percent of the workers of the area, a share of <br />the total labor force that has changed little in the past 20 years. This, <br />as Figure 4 clearly demonstrates, is a disproportionately large share <br />of workers in this industry. In terms of value of product, mining looms <br />even larger and is one of the most important activities in this north- <br />western corner of Colorado. <br /> <br />The most important mining activity is production of oil. This region <br />produces about 55 percent of the petroleum produced in the state. Oil <br />production began in 1919 and as the following table shows, production <br />surged upward following development of the deep wells of the Rangely Field <br />after 1946, reached a peak in 1956 and has followed a declining trend <br />since. <br /> <br />Oil Production (barrels) <br /> <br />1940 <br />1,204,826 <br /> <br />1950 <br /> <br />1956 <br /> <br />1960 <br /> <br />1964 <br /> <br />22,688,887 <br /> <br />31,768,920 <br /> <br />21,974,759 <br /> <br />19,046,263 <br /> <br />It is likely that this declining trend in production will continue as the <br />oil pools are exhausted. Exploration for new oil fields in the area has <br />declined in recent years and the probability of major new discoveries <br />here appear slight, although the interindustry study of the Green River <br />Subbasin, made by the Associated Rocky Mountain Universities for the <br />U. S. Public Health Service, projects an increase in oil production for <br />the Green River Basin (of which the study area is a part) of 4.9 percent <br />over 1960, by 1965, 41 percent by 1980 and 113.5 percent by 2010. In <br />1964, 35 new oil wells were drilled, but during the same time 63 wells <br />were plugged and abandoned. One important development that will extend <br />the life of this industry is the recbarging of oil bearing sands with <br />gas and water. At the Rangely field 38.9 million barrels of water were <br />used for this purpose, in 1960. It has been estimated that this water <br />flooding operation will increase the lifetime production of the Rangely <br />field from about 300 million barrels to about 700 million barrels and <br />could extend the life of the field by 30 years to the year 2000. Water <br />used is White River water and ground water obtained as part of the <br />oil well operations. <br /> <br />-17 - <br />
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