WSP06876

• File Number: 8276.350
• Description: Lower Gunnison Basin Unit - Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 4
• Date: 5/1/1981
• Title: Draft Report of the Lower Gunnison Salinity Control Study
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

TABLE III-2
WETLANDS INFLUENCED BY ONFARM IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT
LOWER GUNNISON SALINITY CONTROL STUDY, COLORADO

Water Sources

Percent of
Wetlands

Acres

Irrigation Management
Natural & Irrigation Management
Natural & Irrigation Management & Canal
Irrigation Management & Canal

15.3%
19.2
0.1
2.8

6,050
7,610
40
1,100

Total

37.4%

14,800

Table 111-3 indicates acreages of wetland types. Wetland Types 1 and

2, as described in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Circular 39, Wetlands of

the United States, constitute 7,200 acres (48.7 percent) of the 14,800 acres

of wetland attributed to irrigation.

TABLE III-3
ONFARM IRRIGATION INFLUENCED WETLANDS, BY WETLAND TYPES
LOWER GUNNISON SALINITY CONTROL STUDY, COLORADO

Percent of Total
1M Wetlands

Wetland Type*

Acres

1
2
Other **

9.5
39.2
51. 3

1,400
5,800
7,60Q.

Total
*After Circular 39, U.S.
**Includes Wetland Types

100.0%
Fish & Wildlife Service Classification.
3,4,5,6,9,10,11.

14,800

The U.S. Fish and wildlife Service furnished the following list of

threatened and endangered plants and animals that may occur in the study

area:

Listed Species

Bald eagle

Haliaeetus leucocephalus

American peregrin falcon

Falco peregrinus anatum

Whooping crane

GrUB americana

Black-footed ferret

Mustela nigripes

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