Report of Water for Municipal and Industrial Use Subproject

The purpose of this subproject is to catalogue information concerning municipal and industrial water use, present and future, in the Salmon Hydrologic unit and to briefly explain the methodology which was used to derive the data. Boundaries of the hydrologic unit and the economic study units discussed in the report are shown in figure 1. The objectives of this study are: 1. To determine water needs for municipal and industrial use in the Salmon River Basin. 2 . To assign a value to the water that might be used for municipal and industrial use in the Salmon River Basin. 3 . To determine the impact on the present and future use of water for municipal and industrial purposes on the Salmon River if the entire system is classified a s a wild river or if only certain segments are so designated. At the present stage of investigation it i s not possible to quantify the third objective