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Basin Planning Process Wyoming is undertaking pro-active statewide basin planning activities to represent changing conditions since the planning efforts in the late 1960s and early 1970's resulted in the publication of the Wyoming Framework Water Plan. The Framework Water Plan consisted of summaries of current water conditions and planning projections for six of the seven major river basins in Wyoming; the Bear River basin was not included in the Framework Plan. Due to technology constraints in the early 1970's, the data, mapping, and analyses tools used in developing the Framework Plan could not be easily updated to reflect changing conditions or new data. The 1996 legislature directed the Wyoming Water Development Commission (WWDC) and the State Engineer's Office (SEO) to prepare a recommendation for updating the 1973 Framework Water Plan. The recommendation concluded that the planning process should accomplish the following three main objectives: 1. Develop basin plans with the participation of local interest groups. 2. Provide decision makers with current, defensible data to allow them to manage water resources for the benefit of all the state's citizens. Provide access to the progress, data, and results of the basin plans in a variety of formats for use by state agencies and Wyoming citizens, including access via the Internet. 3. Develop basin plans, using contemporary water resources data and tools, that quantify existing surface and ground water uses and identify potential future uses. This Bear River Basin Water Plan Report, summarized in this document, is one of the results of the application of these objectives to the Bear River Basin. The Bear River Basin Water Plan and supporting documents, data, and models are available from the Wyoming State Water Plan Web Site (http://waterplan.state.wy.us/), or directly from the WWDC. Background The Bear River headwaters are in the Uinta Mountains in Utah. The Bear River enters Wyoming flowing north through Evanston and into Woodruff Narrows Reservoir. Just downstream of Woodruff Narrows it flows into Utah and then re-enters Wyoming south of Cokeville. The flow is increased greatly by the Smith’s Fork River before it enters Idaho, flowing west near the town of Border. As shown in Figure 1, the Bear River then heads north through Idaho, loops back south, re-enters Utah, and discharges into the Great Salt Lake. The flow in the Bear River is allocated between Wyoming, Utah, and Idaho based on diversions and storage defined in the Bear River Compact. Agriculture accounts for the largest water use in the Wyoming portion of the basin. Surface and ground water are used to irrigate over 60,000 acres of crop land. Bear Executive Summary 1 of 12 September 2001
Figure 1 Bear River Basin Bear Executive Summary 2 of 12 September 2001
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Wyoming Water Development Commissio
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Wyoming Framework Water Plan Volume
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0-INTRODUCTION
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Surface Water…………………
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7.1.4 Supply Estimates…………
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8.6.3 Needs …………………
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List of Tables Table 1-1 Basin Plan
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List of Figures Figure 2-1 Snapshot
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1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 OVERVIEW This
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1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.3 BASIN PLANS Mo
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2.0 WEB TOOL Figure 2-1. Snapshot o
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3.0 SETTING Table 3-1 Landownership
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3.0 SETTING 3.1.3 Climate Wyoming
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3.0 SETTING Table 3-3 Basin Area Po
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3.0 SETTING Table 3-5 2004 Populati
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3.0 SETTING Livestock As of 2004, t
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3.0 SETTING Almanac, 2006). This in
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3.0 SETTING The key elements of Wyo
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3.0 SETTING administered on a strai
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3.0 SETTING It also limits Colorado
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3.0 SETTING (iii) Approximately 34,
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3.0 SETTING the award was for use i
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3.0 SETTING obligations of Wyoming
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3.0 SETTING aesthetically pleasing,
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3.0 SETTING Table 3-9 Drinking Wate
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3.0 SETTING species. If a federal a
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WYOMING - Headwaters of the West! S
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FRANNIE DEAVER COWLEY LOVELL BYRON
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4.0 RESOURCES 4.3 SURFACE WATER RES
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4.0 RESOURCES Table 4-2 Recommended
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4.0 RESOURCES Major Aquifers Alluvi
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4.0 RESOURCES suggest an aquifer gr
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4.0 RESOURCES very low solubilities
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Tongue River Clarks Fork Belle Four
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Wind River Below Boysen Reservoir B
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Thickness, ft TDS, mg/L BE GR NE PL
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5.0 USE 5.1 INTRODUCTION This chapt
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5.0 USE Table 5-1 Irrigated Acreage
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5.0 USE beets, and beans are grown.
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5.0 USE River Basin Table 5-3 Estim
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5.0 USE Table 5-4 Estimated Average
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5.0 USE than existing demands. Addi
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5.0 USE The amount of industrial wa
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5.0 USE 5.5 RECREATIONAL WATER USE
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5.0 USE A quality boating experienc
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5.0 USE numbers of people bound for
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5.0 USE The first filings in Wyomin
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5.0 USE human activities (e.g., imp
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FRANNIE RANCHESTER DEAVER COWLEY DA
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FRANNIE RANCHESTER DEAVER COWLEY PA
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FRANNIE Wind/Bighorn RANCHESTER DEA
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Wind/Bighorn PARK ! Buffalo Bill Me
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1 Basin Map Number Stream Basin Map
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6.0 PROJECTIONS This chapter presen
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6.0 PROJECTIONS Wind/Bighorn River
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6.0 PROJECTIONS The CIR or use for
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6.0 PROJECTIONS Table 6-5 Summary o
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6.0 PROJECTIONS These three methods
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6.0 PROJECTIONS Table 6-8 Projected
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6.0 PROJECTIONS Wyoming. Under all
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6.0 PROJECTIONS The Platte River Ba
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6.0 PROJECTIONS discharged. The com
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6.0 PROJECTIONS water is used in so
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6.0 PROJECTIONS River Basin. Severa
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6.0 PROJECTIONS Projections of popu
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6.0 PROJECTIONS withstand without s
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6.0 PROJECTIONS permitting document
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6.0 PROJECTIONS Table 6-14 Projecte
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7.0 AVAILABILITY minimized to the e
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7.0 AVAILABILITY Reach Gain/Loss Th
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7.0 AVAILABILITY hydrologic conditi
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7.0 AVAILABILITY Table 7-2 Availabl
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7.0 AVAILABILITY quality, whereas a
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7.0 AVAILABILITY River Basins. The
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7.0 AVAILABILITY 7.2.6 Basin Summar
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7.0 AVAILABILITY ! Increase support
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7.0 AVAILABILITY Fencing to keep ca
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I D A H O JACKSON Note: The Physica
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Dry: 0K Normal: 50K Wet: 100K # CAM
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M O N T A N A Note: The Physically
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8.0 OPPORTUNITIES 8.2.2 Short List
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8.0 OPPORTUNITIES are needs for sup
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8.0 OPPORTUNITIES The West Fork pro
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8.0 OPPORTUNITIES 8.3.9 Future Grou
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8.0 OPPORTUNITIES Table 8-5 Evaluat
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8.0 OPPORTUNITIES 8.4.6 Supplementa
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8.0 OPPORTUNITIES Table 8-7 Framewo
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8.0 OPPORTUNITIES Cottonwood Creek
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8.0 OPPORTUNITIES Table 8-8 Apporti
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8.0 OPPORTUNITIES Table 8-10 Evalua
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8.0 OPPORTUNITIES 8.5.6 Supplementa
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8.0 OPPORTUNITIES Table 8-12 Framew
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8.0 OPPORTUNITIES 8.5.8 Recommendat
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8.0 OPPORTUNITIES Table 8-14 Platte
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8.0 OPPORTUNITIES 8.6.6 Structural
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8.0 OPPORTUNITIES Water Diversions
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8.0 OPPORTUNITIES Reservoir, North
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8.0 OPPORTUNITIES Agricultural Oppo
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8.0 OPPORTUNITIES Cottonwood/Grass
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8.0 OPPORTUNITIES 8.9.8 Recommendat
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8.0 OPPORTUNITIES ! The Madison Aqu
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JACKSON TETON ALPINE PAVILLION RIVE
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Cheyenne River M O N T A N A Little
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Lamar River M O N T A N A PARK Snak
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9.0 PROJECT FUNDING 9.1 INTRODUCTIO
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9.0 PROJECT FUNDING Projects begin
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GLOSSARY acre-foot aquifer aquitard
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Issues identified in the Northeast
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TABLE OF CONTENTS E X E C U T I V E
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P L A T T E R I V E R B A S I N P R
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Powder/Tongue River Basin Plan Exec
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Executive Summary Powder/Tongue Riv
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Executive Summary Climate in the ba
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Executive Summary cipitation. These
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Executive Summary in most areas, to
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Executive Summary growth scenarios.
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Executive Summary Following the cre
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WIND/BIGHORN RIVER BASIN PLAN EXECU
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Authorization The
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acres of state land and 8.9 million
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Municipal and Domestic According to
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Table 2 presents a summary of the s
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Ground Water Availability Within th
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Figure 5 Potential Areas for Future
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Power Study The Wind/Bighorn River
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Appendix B WESTERN STATES SURVEY
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GENERAL POINTS AND SUGGESTED IDEAS
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Texas 1. Texas has been involved in
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state agency. Place value on citize
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Appendix C FUTURE BASIN PLAN ORDER
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Green River Basin Population 100000
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Appendix D PUBLIC COMMENTS
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