WSP10999

• File Number: 8221.110.J
• Description: Juniper-Cross Mountain Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Yampa/White
• Date: 5/14/1982
• Title: The Juniper-Cross Mountain Project: A Preliminary Technical Review of Needs and Alternatives
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Storage Project (CRSP), even though the large federal dams on the

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Gunnison River are within its service area. Colorado-Ute expects to

have its federal allocation increased in 1989,~ but has not said

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by how much.

More immediately, WAPA is currently marketing 72 Mw of winter

peaking capacity from the already operational Yellowtail hydro
project, through its Loveland-Fort Collins, Colorado office.27/

As one of the largest winter-peaking preference customers in the

region, Colorado-Ute may be able to obtain some of this capacity.

How much is not known.

The federal government is also planning or building numerous

hydro projects in or near Colorado-Ute's service area from which

it may be able to purchase power. These include McPhee Dam on

the Dolores River in southwestern Colorado (1 Mw, under construc-

tion) ,

the Dolores Tunnel project on the Towaoc Canal in south-

western Colorado (10 Mw, under construction),

and an expansion

of Flaming Gorge Dam on the Green River in southern Wyoming
(40 Mw, in planning).28/

The federal project with the biggest potential for replacing

Juniper-Cross Mountain is the Dominguez project, proposed for the

Gunnison River downstram of Delta, Colorado. The Dominguez Dam

itself would generate 18 Mw with a very high 86 percent capacity

factor, but the project would also include a 500 Mw pumped storage

plant using Dominguez Reservoir as the lower reservoir. As

recently as April 1980 the project was planned for full operation
by December 1988.29/ More recently it has been inactive, and no

planned operating date is currently known. certainly, the

Dominguez project could be developed by 1993-94.