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Recreational Water Use: Golf Courses

 
 

Platte River Basin golf courses typically consumptively use water for irrigation. Some facilities use treated domestic or industrial wastewater for irrigation. Other golf courses have private groundwater wells or use treated water supplied by the nearest town or city. One golf course is located within the Lower Laramie subbasin. The following table summarizes information regarding this golf course, including the estimated quantity of irrigation water that is consumptively used at the golf course during ônormalö or average years. To view a map of golf course locations in the Lower Laramie subbasin click here.

Golf courses in the Lower Laramie subbasin

Golf Course
Location
Acreage
Source of Supply
Municipal Supply
(yes / no / partial)
Total Consumptive Use during normal years
(acre-feet)
Wheatland Golf Club
Wheatland, WY
94.8
Flood out of Rock Creek with a holding pond, well that pumps into holding pond, pump from holding pond into sprinkler system
No
245

 

 

 
 


The Platte River Basin Plan is a planning tool developed for the Wyoming Water Development Office. It presents estimated current and estimated future uses of water in WyomingÆs Platte River Basin. The Plan is not used to determine compliance with or administration of state law, federal law, court decrees, interstate compacts, or interstate agreements.
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