WSP04694

• File Number: 8281.400
• Description: Colorado River Studies and Investigations -- Colorado River Depletion Projections
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 6/1/1965
• Author: C. Jex Engineers
• Title: Report on Water Runoff and Stream Depletion of the Main Stem Colorado River Basin in Colorado
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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S'ource of Supply

Annual Diversion in Acre Feet
Historical Anticipated Potential
Diversion Diversion Ultimate

r~in Eagle River
Hbr..estake Creek
Gore Creek
Total

14,600'
64,000
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78,600

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4,000

14,600
64,000
23.500
107,100

The anticipated strear;; depletion for the Eagle
River Subbasin is sutnmnrized in the follo\Jing table:
Apticipated Total Stream Depletion - Units Acre Feet

Present annual stream depletion
~'AnticiLpated annual str",ar derletiu,
for expanded irrigation
Anticipated annual stream depletion for
e~panded municipal and industrial use
apd reservoir evaporation
#Antic~pated annual stream depletion for
expanded transr.;ountain diversion
Sub-total
Total '

26,200

11,000

1,400
74.600
87,000

87,000
113,200

'~Includes allcHance fer natural veGataticn, seeped land and
vlater: surfaces without lhli tation to l11an-n;ade depletion.

i?;!i th transmountain diversion lir.:1 ted to the vlater di vertable
by the facilities presently under construction.

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