WSP07117

• File Number: 8276.130
• Description: Grand Valley Unit-Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 11/1/1990
• Title: Final Environmental Assessment: Price and Stubb Ditch Improvements - Grand Valley Unit
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: EIS

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Chapter I II

AFFECTED ENVIRONMENT AND
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES

Table 7
Stubb Ditch improvements
construction phase income and employment impacts

Construction year
1 2
Units 1991 1992 Total
Total construction costs (1) $1,000 $2,300 $900 $3,200
On-site Government salaries (2a) 1,000 124 49 173
Contractor on-site labor salaries (2b) 1,000 166 65 231
Total on-site salaries (2b) 1,000 290 114 404
Adjusted construction cost (2c) 1,000 2,245 879 3,124
On-site Government employees (2d) work-years 5 2 7
Contractor on-site labor (2e) work-years 6 2 8
Total work-years 11 4 15
Contract on-site (2f) jobs 15 6 21
Total local direct employment (2q) iobs 20 8 28

(1) Based on 1/90 costs; these are the allocated construction costs of
the project in thousands of dollars.

(2) Construction impact for each $1,000,000 of appropriations; pipe
distribution system, 1/88 , Engineering and Research Center, Denver, Colo.
For each $1,000,000:
a. 18.0 percent is spent on Government salaries of which 30 percent
(5.4 percent of total) is for local Federal Government salaries.
b. 7.2 percent is spent for contractor on-site labor; therefore 12.6
percent is directly spent on local salaries. All figures rounded to be
presented to the nearest thousand dollars.
c. Based on construction cost trends composite index for the cost
level shown in footnote 2 (164) divided by the cost level of the E&R Center
report shown in footnote 1 (168), the index to adjust construction costs
for employment impact calculations is 0.9762.
d. 7.6 work-years of Government employment per million dollars is
purchased of which 30 percent ( 2.3 work-years) is local Federal Government
employees.
e. 2.8 work-years contractor on-site labor; therefore 5.1 work-years
of local labor is purchased per million dollars.
f. Contractor on-site jobs = contractor on-site labor work-years
times adjustment for 5-month construction season ( 2.40).
g. Adding "on-site Government employee work-years" to "contractor
on-site jobs" yields the total direct employment in terms of jobs.

All figures rounded to the nearest whole job or work-year. Adding
the full-time Government positions to the seasonal contractor labor
positions available during the 5-month construction season, yields the
total direct employment in terms of jobs.

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