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8.0 OPPORTUNITIES
8.7.4 Long List of Future Water Use Opportunities
The long list of water use opportunities compiled in the Basin Plan comprised 54 projects.
Opportunities were identified in all five of the sub-basins. This list was reviewed by the BAG to produce
the short list of water use opportunities.
8.7.5 Short List of Future Water Use Opportunities
The long list was evaluated, and the short lists for each subbasin were developed in the Basin
Plan as shown in Tables 8-17 through 8-22. The short lists were broken down into the following four
types:
! Type 1: Rehabilitation projects that preserve existing uses.
! Type 2: Projects that rectify existing shortages consistent with the hierarchy of preferred uses
established by the Wyoming statutes.
! Type 3: Projects that meet projected future demands consistent with the hierarchy of
preferred uses established by the Wyoming statutes.
! Type 4: Projects that enhance uses in other Wyoming basins through trans-basin diversions.
The storage projects included in the short list are shown on Figure 8-5.
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