RGDSS_Historic_CUreport_20040601

• Title: RGDSS - Rio Grande Historic Crop Consumptive Use Analysis
• Description: The documentation is for the Rio Grande Basin Historic Crop Consumptive Use Analysis, developed during the RGDSS implementation for the period 1950 through 2002. It includes 100 percent of the crop consumptive use in the basin for the period. Documentation consists of the final Historic Crop Consumptive Use Analysis Report and supporting appendices.
• Decision Support - Doc Type: Modeling Dataset Documentation
• Date: 6/1/2004
• DSS Category: Consumptive Use
• DSS: Rio Grande
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Contract/PO #: C153863
• Grant Type: Non-Reimbursable
• Bill Number: HB98-1189, SB99-173
• Prepared By: Leonard Rice Engineering

Figure 13 presents shortage by year as well as permitted or decreed well capacity in the
basin. As shown, shortages vary from year to year based on water supply; however,
shortages appear to have decreased over time as more wells have been permitted and
decreed.
Figure 13
Annual Percent Shortage and Permitted Pumping Capacity
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1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990
-Annual Shortage t Permitted Pumping
1995 2000
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