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<br />, <br /> <br />Date: January 09, 1998 <br /> <br />From: <br /> <br />Water Resource Group, Salt Lake City <br /> <br />RECEIVED <br />JAN 1 6 1998 <br /> <br />To: <br /> <br />All Colorado River Annual Operating Plan (AOP) Recipients <br /> <br />Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board <br /> <br />Current Status <br /> <br />December <br />i nflow(unreg) <br />(acre-feet) <br /> <br />Percent <br />of normal <br /> <br />Midnight <br />January 06 <br />Elevation <br /> <br />Reservoir <br />Storage <br />(acre-feet) <br /> <br />Fontenelle <br />Flaming Gorge <br />Blue Mesa <br />Powell <br />Navajo <br /> <br />39,000 <br />40,000 <br />31 , 000 <br />567,000 <br />23,000 <br /> <br />119 <br />100 <br />120 <br />132 <br />91 <br /> <br />6,488.02 <br />6,028.96 <br />7,487.72 <br />3,681. 71 <br />6,075.17 <br /> <br />215,000 <br />3,309,000 <br />564,000 <br />21,508,000 <br />1,554,000 <br /> <br />Expected Operation <br /> <br />FONTENELLE - Releases from Fontenelle Reservoir are currently at about 1400 cfs. Inflow <br />into Fontenelle is about 600 cfs and the elevation is about 6488 feet. Releases will likely remain <br />near 1400 cfs through the winter period. The goal will be to maintain stable releases during this <br />period and also to draw down the reservoir to elevation 6463,5 feet by April I, 1998 in <br />anticipation of the 1998 runoff season. <br /> <br />FLAMING GORGE - Releases from Flaming Gorge are now steady at 3000 cfs with no hour to <br />hour fluctuations. Releases, were reduced on December 25 to 3000 cf (from 3400 cfs) <br /> <br />Releases will likely remain at 3000 cfs through the first week of January. At this time, the <br />National Weather Service will issue an inflow forecast for Flaming Gorge. Further reductions in <br />releases are likely to occur in early January based on the magnitude of this forecated inflow. <br />Snowpack in the Upper Green River Basin is currently only 67 percent of average (1/5/1998). <br /> <br />Open forum discussions on Flaming Gorge operations have been taking place at meetings of the <br />"Flaming Gorge Working Group". The next Working Group meeting is scheduled for January 15 <br />at I I am in Vernal, Ut. For more information on the Working Group, contact Ed Vidmar at <br />801-379-1000. <br /> <br />ASPINALL - December unregulated inflow into Blue Mesa was 31,000 acre-feet or about 120 <br />percent of average. Currently the inflow rate into Blue Mesa Reservoir is averaging about 500 <br />cfs, Blue Mesa's current elevation is 7487.7 feet with a storage content of 564,000 acre-feet. <br />