Scientific Investigations Report 2006–5205

U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Scientific Investigations Report 2006–5205

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Table 11. Appropriated ground-water quantity and estimated pumpage for six categories of pumpage, Yakima River Basin, Washington, 2000.

[Appropriated quantity: includes about 21,000 acre-feet of appropriated water not listed in Water Rights Tracking System (WRTS), about 6,700 acre-feet of which is outside the basin. All values in acre-feet]

Category Estimated
pumpage		 Appropriated
quantity		 Difference
Public Water Supply
Municipal systems1 37,273 107,958 70,685
Group A and B systems2 9,112 21,945 12,833
Domestic 31 166 135
Irrigation
Primary 188,230 266,502 78,272
Standby/reserve3 82,812 104,687 21,875
Frost protection 0 299 -299
Livestock4 6,726 6,726 0
Commercial and industrial 7,230 31,619 24,389
Fish and wildlife5 4,855 16,531 11,676

1Includes all estimated pumpage, including one small municipality without a right.

2Includes most systems, including those without rights and some outside the basin; appropriated water includes some systems not identified as a Group A or B system.

3Standby/reserve pumpage occurs in years with prorating, and for 2000 would be zero.

4Includes estimated pumpage for small dairies under an exempt status and associated 5,000 gallons per day allowable quantity per dairy in the appropriated value.

5 Includes only estimated pumpage for wells with rights, about 13,000 acre-feet of appropriated water not included in WRTS.

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