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<br />00310'7 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />PROJECT SYSTEM OPERATION <br /> <br />WEST SLOPE <br /> <br />INfLOWS TO THE. PROJECT SYSTEM FROM THE COLORADO RIVER IN 1967. ToTALING 253.043 <br /> <br />ACRE-FEET, WERE. ABOUT 10% ABOVE THE AVERAGE. rOR THE PRECEDING TEN-YEAR PERIOD. THIS WAS <br /> <br />FAR BETTER THAN THE '42,422 ACRE-FEET DURING THE 1966 WATER YEAR AND ABOVE THE TEN-YEAR <br /> <br />AVERAGE Of 228,082 ACRE-FEET. <br /> <br />THE FOLLOWING COMPUTATION SHOWS GROSS AND NET INFLOWS TO GRAN BY AND WILLOW CREEK <br /> <br />RESERVOIRS FOR 1967: <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />STORAGE @ BEGINNING OF YEAR <br />STORAGE @ [NO OF YEAR <br />STORAGE:: CHANGE <br />ADAMS TUNNEL DIVERSIONS 11-1.66 THRW 10-3,-67 <br />NET INFLOW <br />IRRIGA~'ON AND FISH RELEASES: <br />FROM WILLOW CREE~ <br />FROM GRANBY <br />TOTAL RELEASES <br />MEASURED StEPAGE: <br />FROM WILLOW CREEK <br />FROM GRAI\IBY <br />TOTAL SEEPAGE <br />COMPUTED EVAPORATION LOSSES FROM GRANBY, WILLOW CREEK, <br />SHADOW MOUNTAIN, AND GRAND LAK~ <br />TOTAL GROSS INFLOW <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />ACRE-f~ET <br />200,869 <br />198.887 <br /> <br />1.982 <br />255.025 <br />253.043 <br /> <br />8.802 <br />27.911 <br /> <br />36,713 <br /> <br />1.136 <br />1.049 <br /> <br />2,185 <br /> <br />13.028 <br />304.969 <br /> <br />CARRY-OVER STORAGE IN HORSETOOTH AND CARTER lAKE RESERVOIRS rOLLOWING THE 1966 <br /> <br />IRRIGATION SEASON WAS WELL BELOW NORMAL. THtRErORE. IN ORDER TO HAVE ADEQUATE WATER SUP- <br /> <br />PLIES AVAILABLE IN EAST SLOPE RESERVOIRS TO MEET ANTICIPATED DELIVERy REQUIREMENTS, ADAMS <br /> <br />TUNNEL rLQWS DURING THE WINTER MONTHS WERE HIGHER THAN NORMAL. <br /> <br />SINCE INrLOWS TO GRAND LAKE AND SHADOW MOUNTAIN DURING THE WINTER MONTHS ARE MINIMAL, <br /> <br />PRACTICA~LY ALL or T~IS WATER HAD TO BE PUMPED rROM GRANey RESERVO'~. THE PUMP ll~T ~ROM <br /> <br />GRAN6Y INTO SHADOW MOUNTAIN WAS ALSO HIGHER THAN USUAL DUE TO THE LOW STAGE or GRANBY <br /> <br />RESERVO I R. <br /> <br />IN 1966, 80.3~ or ADAMS TUNNEL OIV~RS'ONS WAS PUMPED. <br /> <br />IN COMPARISON, 85.3. OR <br /> <br />217,602 or T~E 255,025 ACRE-rEET BROUGHT THROUGH ADAMS TUNNEL IN 1967 WAS PUMPED rROM GRANBY. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />-14- <br />