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Show It II u relative to the timing, process, and resources necessary for development are not yet available. Water requirements for municipal and ' industrial use in the Uinta Basin have been projected by the State Department of Natural Resources to increase from 20,000 acre-feet annually .to about 130,000 acre-feet by 2020. This increase in •requirement could be met in the following ways; (1) Utah's share of the Colorado River (on the basis of 5.8 million acre-feet available to the Upper Basin States) is 1,322,000 acre-feet. Present use, including net evaporation charge on the river is 818,000 acre-feet, leaving 504,000 acre-feet for future uses. Current estimates of committed future use total 397,000 acre-feet, which leaves 107,000 •acre-feet uncommitted and available for oil shale development. Estimates of committed future use were derived as follows: . Bonneville Unit 160,000 acre-feef '.';•. Emery County Project 6,000 . •'--. Jensen Unit 15,000 ." " ' Upalco Unit 10,000 • *-.-•-• Uinta Unit ." . 30,000 Indian Lands 50,000 Kaiparowits Power Project 102,000 Huntington Canyon Powerplant 24,000 Total estimated future uses 397,000 acre-feet (2) Under terms of the October 2, 1969, contract with the developers of the Kaiparowits Project, priority to 102,000 acre-feet presently ^ reserved for the ^ro^ect will be subordinated tc Central Utah Project beginning in 2010^ The total amount to be relinquished periodically in blocks, would be available by 2030. (3) As explained in the Oil Shale Environmental Statement, "Additional water can be made available if the States permit the (oil shale) industry to purchase some of the "water rights from those presently using water and if the use category - is changed from some of the future commitments." Augmentation of Colorado River Basin water supplies by importation from other basins, desalination, or weather modification would increase the water supply available for oil shale development in Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming. - . _ - • . „ Hunicipal and industrial water supply envisioned by the project is an ' important part of the total MSI demand in that it firms up additional . local supplies by releases to meet peak requirements during the year and needs during drought periods that occur periodically. It is " estimated that the 99,000 acre-feet scheduled for H&I deliveries would be fully utilized before the turn of the century, probably by 1995. . The various techniques of population projection vary somewhat, but the - p*- r |
