WSP08772

• File Number: 8220.100.25
• Description: CRSP
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 10/1/1953
• Author: USDOI/BOR
• Title: Supplemental Report on Colorado River Storage Project and Participating Projects, Upper Colorado River Basin, October 1953
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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pRELIMINARY mCRElmITAL ANALYSIS
COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT mlITS

10-8-53 .
Cost of
Cost of ste8lll
power power
delivered tomest
to SBlllll
market market
Jol.ills r kwh
12 13

Specific Annual operation,
Allocation of power Power maintenance, and
;joint costs costs Total Cost costa reolacement
To To incl~ power roassign- assipned At site assigned net
irrigation power transmission cost mente to unit costs costs costs
Million Dollars thousand dollars
4 5 7 8 9 10

Average
annual
salable
energy
(millim
kwh
11

Benefit
Cost
Ratios
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2

3

Project
Unit
(In assumed
order of
construction
1
nlITIU UlUTS
Glen Canyon 50.3 141.7
Echo Park 48.0 76.8
DATA' ON UNITS IN ULTDlATE PLAN
Cross ~jountain 13.'9 19.4
Split ~,Iountain
Jray C~on
Flaming Gorge
Curecanti*
Crystal
W'nitewater
TOTAL
NOTES:
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Incremental power plant and transmission line costs reassigned among thll project units in accordance with the energy
credited ',0 each site.
Total power costs assigned to each unit including allocated joint costs, POWBrplant, transmission, and interest
during construction.
10 The est imated annual cost of operation, lIIlIintenance, and replacement assigned to each unit. ~ '"
11 Average annual salable generation credited to each unit during 50 ye&"8 of full operation.'.
12 Hill rate required to reoay all costs allocated to power at each unit, including interest during construction, inj
years of full operation with 2~% interest charred on the unpaid balance. '
The benefit-cost, ratios shown are based on primary DOwer benefits only but give consideration to the expected use
life of facilities extending beyond 50 years by the present value of the ettimated salvage after 50 years.

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* Capacity 2,500,000 acre-feet.

229.3 371.0 -16.9 382.0 4802 -336 44h6 381.3 4.7 7.3 1.71
,1.6 128.4 -.5 137.5 ll55 ..J.O 1145 1017 5.9 7.3 1.42.
16.9 36.3 3.7 296 75 371 376 5.G 7.3 1.65
84.4 84.4 7.2 644- l44 788 6l.3 6.5 7.3 1.26
54.3 181.7 6.0 l2l2 121 1333 1186 7.1 7.3 1.15
14.3 54..1 .9 36l. 17 381 388 6.4 7.3 1.36
14.8 55.7 1.7 376 35 4ll 308 8.4 7.3 1.01;
40.9 40.9 -1.2 325 -26 299 227 7.9 7.3 1.00
18. 60 ~ 2 1.0
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