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Show PART II PRESENT STATUS Table 5 - Summary of 1965 Municipal and Industrial Withdrawal Water Requirements and Depletions Upper Main Stem Subregion Withdrawal Depletion Water Use____________________(acre-feet)______________(acre-feet) Domestic 21,600 7,900 Manufacturing 5,600 1,000 Livestock 11,200 11,200 Governmental 4,500 400 Commercial & Other 7,200 3,000 Subregional Total 50,100 23,500 Manufacturing depletions were 18 percent of manufacturing withdrawal requirements. The manufacturing water requirements in the subregion were required primarily by fruit and vegetable canners, dairies, beet sugar manufacturers, and meat packing plants in the food and kindred products industry; by saw mills and planing mills in the lumber and wood products industry; by structural steel fabricators and boiler shops in the fabri- cated metals industry; and by ready-mix concrete manufacturers in the stone, clay and glass industry. Livestock, governmental, and commercial water requirements were signi- ficant in the subregion. Commercial and governmental water withdrawal requirements accounted for 14 and 9 percent of total withdrawals, respec- tively. Livestock requirements accounted for 22 percent of total with- drawals and 48 percent of total depletions. Evaporation from stock water- ing ponds accounted for 7,300 acre-feet or 65 percent of total livestock depletions in the Upper Main Stem Subregion. San Juan-Colorado Subregion M&I water uses in the San Juan-Colorado Subregion had a withdrawal requirement of 33,100 acre-feet in 1965. The depletion for these uses was 17,600 acre-feet, which amounted to 53 percent of the withdrawal requirements. The subregional withdrawal requirements and depletions for M&I water uses are summarized in Table 6. 15 |