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<br />and the facilities were turned over to the
<br />Dolores District of the San Juan National
<br />Forest for maintaining The recreation
<br />area, under management by the Forest
<br />Service, was opened to the public for
<br />recreational use in May. The reservoir
<br />should fill completely during spring runolf
<br />in 1987.
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<br />The House Creek Recreation Area on
<br />McPhee Resevoir is scheduled lor com-
<br />pletion by the end of the 1987 construc-
<br />tion season. The facilities include a boat
<br />ramp, rest rooms , campground and day
<br />use areas.
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<br />Central Utah Project
<br />The Centraf Ulah Project conlinues to
<br />provide numerous water oriented recrea-
<br />lional opportunities. In 1986, total visita-
<br />tion at Cental Utah Project reserVOrrs was
<br />611,635. Strawberry Reservoir accounted
<br />jor the majority of this use.
<br />
<br />Reservoir Visitations
<br />(Estimated)
<br /> Year
<br /> First
<br />Reservoir Visited 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986
<br />Curecanll (Aspinall) 1966 891,490 988,951 994,265 1,050,217 994,143 1,017,782 1,114,456
<br />Crawford 1963 94,684 63,388 83,054 90,393 69,000 83,123 75,000
<br />Flaming Gorge 1962 815,900 816,000 1,833,100 1,758,663 1,647,000 1,7 48, 796 1,733,699
<br />Fontenelle 1965 48,668 42,560 74,000 74,000 54,000 14,000 25,000
<br />Heron 1973 136,334 145,000 106,301 150,204 143,853 171,044 202,853
<br />Hunttngton North 1967 98,900 73,291 73.700 77,365 71.035 73,976 78,489
<br />Joes Valley 1967 82,773 104,080 93,320 101,300 70,200 73,200 81,072
<br />Lake Powell 1962 1,646.657 1,820,163 1 ,841 ,356 1,826,572 2,052,652 2,160,542 2,484,024
<br />Lemon 1964 44,897 66,129 66,537 79,844 31 .420 32,100 32,100
<br />Meeks Cabin 1973 1,130 1.1 50 2,500 3,878 1,792 2,100 2,125
<br />Navajo 1963 335.464 401,351 405,432 455,620 485,113 968,195 527,602
<br />Paonia 1962 14.826 22,384 18,955 24,249 16,254 17,808 19,057
<br />Red Fleet 1982 9,751 11,579 4,806 9,377 14,220
<br />Rille Gap 1967 147,773 148,206 149,000 111,312 111,312 126,574 96,651
<br />Silver Jack 1973 35,970 35,500 34,400 44,550 39,650 50,355 43,363
<br />Starvation 1970 32,035 37,909 40,000 25,696 32,338 28,989 40,554
<br />Slatellne 1982 2,276 3,696 3,326 4,900 5,600
<br />Steinaker 1962 71,384 104,357 105,400 105,111 82,699 61,677 72,768
<br />Strawberry
<br />Enlargement 1975 56,661 54,640 133,800 279,871 1,735,950 651,467 446,600
<br />TOTALS 4,555,546 4,924,879 6,068,147 6,274,192 6,119,854 7,368,005 7,095,233
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