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7.0 AVAILABILITY
Table 7-2 Available Flows
Hydrologic Condition
Wet Normal Dry
Physically
Available Flow
Legally
Available Flow
Physically
Available Flow
Legally
Available Flow
Physically
Available Flow
Legally
Available Flow
Basin
ac-ft per year
Bear River
Upper Division 360,000 325,000 176,000 142,000 37,000 27,000
Central Division 786,000 508,000 427,000 188,000 132,000 0
Green River
Henrys Fork 125,000 NA 60,000 NA 23,000 NA
Lower Blacks Fork 422,000 NA 229,000 NA 101,000 NA
Lower Hams Fork 186,000 NA 95,000 NA 48,000 NA
Upper Blacks Fork 247,000 NA 136,000 NA 54,000 NA
Upper Little Snake River 311,000 NA 211,000 NA 111,000 NA
Lower Little Snake River 665,000 NA 449,000 NA 189,000 NA
Lower Green River 1,924,000 NA 1,269,000 NA 620,000 NA
Above Fontenelle Reservoir 1,659,000 NA 1,073,000 NA 496,000 NA
Upper Green River 701,000 NA 464,000 NA 251,000 NA
New Fork River 776,000 NA 573,000 NA 301,000 NA
Horn Creek 93,000 NA 57,000 NA 24,000 NA
Cottonwood Creek 97,000 NA 50,000 NA 15,000 NA
West Fork New Fork 183,000 NA 122,000 NA 57,000 NA
Pole Creek 404,000 NA 282,000 NA 146,000 NA
East Fork New Fork 211,000 NA 119,000 NA 56,000 NA
Piney Creek 76,000 NA 42,000 NA 18,000 NA
Northeast Wyoming
Upper Belle Fourche 14,000 NA 4,000 NA 200 NA
Middle Belle Fourche 9,000 NA 3,500 NA 400 NA
Lower Belle Fourche 151,000 15,600 71,000 7,400 13,000 1,100
Redwater Creek 34,000 3,300 26,000 2,400 17,000 1,400
Upper Beaver Creek 11,000 NA 9,000 NA 5,000 NA
Middle Beaver Creek 17,000 NA 14,000 NA 9,000 NA
Lower Beaver Creek 30,000 NA 20,000 NA 14,000 NA
Northern Tribs to Cheyenne River 58,000 NA 13,000 NA 2,000 NA
Southern Tribs to Cheyenne River 45,000 NA 18,000 NA 3,000 NA
Lower Cheyenne River 103,000 NA 31,000 NA 5,000 NA
Little Missouri River NA NA NA NA NA NA
Niobrara River NA NA NA NA NA NA
Powder/Tongue River
Little Bighorn 152,000 NA 113,000 NA 81,000 NA
Tongue River 473,000 163,000 326,000 90,000 218,000 40,000
Upper Clear Creek 213,000 NA 124,000 NA 80,000 NA
Lower Clear Creek (Powder River) 547,000 211,500 324,000 131,000 194,000 74,300
Upper Crazy Woman Creek 49,000 NA 22,000 NA 6,000 NA
Lower Crazy Woman Creek 61,000 NA 31,000 NA 16,000 NA
Upper Powder River 230,000 NA 153,000 NA 91,000 NA
South Fork Powder River 44,000 NA 27,000 NA 13,000 NA
Lower Powder River 328,000 NA 195,000 NA 111,000 NA
Little Powder River 48,000 NA 12,000 NA 3,000 NA
Snake/Salt River
Salt River 694,000 31,000 458,000 22,000 216,000 12,000
Snake River 4,159,000 165,000 2,888,000 116,000 1,769,000 69,000
Teton River NA NA NA NA NA NA
Henrys Fork NA NA NA NA NA NA
Wind/Bighorn River
Clarks Fork 1,144,000 686,000 740,000 444,000 499,000 299,000
Upper Wind River 1 471,000 355,000 250,000 150,000 75,000 70,000
Little Wind River 1 137,000 137,000 88,000 88,000 27,000 27,000
Lower Wind River 1 987,000 878,000 749,000 684,000 332,000 293,000
Upper Bighorn River 1,695,000 NA 1,303,000 NA 871,000 NA
Owl Creek 48,000 NA 28,000 NA 9,000 NA
Nowood River 425,000 NA 296,000 NA 249,000 NA
Lower Bighorn River 1,912,000 NA 1,568,000 NA 920,000 NA
Greybull River NA NA 108,000 NA 48,000 NA
Shoshone River 1,082,000 NA 748,000 NA 472,000 NA
Bull Lake Creek 162,000 112,000 108,000 71,000 14,000 14,000
Dinwoody Creek 64,000 57,000 40,000 37,000 6,000 6,000
Middle Fork Popo Agie River 166,000 166,000 108,000 108,000 61,000 61,000
North Fork Little Wind River 95,000 95,000 63,000 63,000 12,000 12,000
Shell Creek 57,000 NA 47,000 NA 19,000 NA
Note: NA - Information was not presented in the individual basin plans.
1 Legally available flows include the development of the Tribal Futures Projects.
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