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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Vegas Wash that they arranged for Board members and staffon June 18,2002. It was instructive <br />for the Board to tour the Las Vegas Wash restoration sites in the context of potential conservation <br />and restoration activities being planned for the Lower Colorado River through the aegis of the Lower <br />Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program. <br /> <br />AGENCY MANAGERS MEETING <br /> <br />An Agency Managers' meeting was held on July 2, 2002, in Ontario, California. At the <br />meeting, the following issues were discussed: (l) Yuma Area Water Resources Management Group; <br />(2) Yuma Island; (3) Conswnptive Use and Article V Decree Accounting; (4) Recent Federal <br />Register Notice regarding the Interim Surplus Guidelines; and (5) Reclamation's review of the 602(a) <br />storage requirement. Each of these issues will be described in more detail in following sections of <br />the Executive Director's Report. <br /> <br />PROTECTION OF EXISTING RIGHTS <br /> <br />Colorado River Water ReDort <br /> <br />During May 2002, storage in the major Upper Basin reservoirs decreased by 322,000 <br />acre-feet and storage in the Lower Basin reservoirs decreased by 559,000 acre-feet. Total System <br />active storage as of the end of May was 41,469 million acre-feet (mat) or 70 percent of capacity, <br />which is 7.150 maf less than one year ago. <br /> <br />June releases from Hoover, Davis, and Parker Dams averaged 17,410, 17,190 and 12,670 <br />cubic feet per second (cfs), respectively. Planned releases from those three dams for the month of <br />July 2002 are 15,800, 15,400, and 12,500 cfs, respectively. The June releases represent those needed <br />to meet downstream water requirements including those caused by reduced operation of Senator <br />Wash reservo ir. <br /> <br />The final July 1,2002, projected April through July 2002 unregulated inflow into Lake Powell <br />was 1.250 maf, which is 16 percent of the 30-year average for the period 1961-1990. The <br />preliminary July I, 2002, proj~cted unregulated inflow into Lake Powell for the 2001-02 water year <br />was 3.437J!!1lf. or 29 percent of the 30-year average. <br /> <br />The Lower Division States' estimated consumptive use of Colorado River water for calendar <br />year 2002, as estimated by BOljl'd staff, totals 8.534 maf and is projected as follows: tuizona, 3.011 <br />maf; C~lifornia, 5.217 maf; an~ Nevada, 0.300 maf. Unmeasured retum flow credit of 0.249 maf <br />would reduce the total amount of projected consumptive use to 8.285 mat: For calendar year 2002, <br />it is estimated the Central Arizona Project (CAP) will divert 1.556 maf, of which 0.351 mafis to be <br />credited !..o_the Arizona Water Bank. and The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California <br />(MWD) will divert 1.252 mat: <br /> <br />2 <br />