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<br />e <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />EXISTING FACILITIES - CRSP NAVA,JO UNIT - NAVA..JO RESERVOIR (CONTINUED) <br /> <br />2 <br /> <br />Use of the inactive capacity would require construction of facilities to <br />pump water to the intake of the NIIP diversion. <br /> <br />C. Amount of non-contracted yield: <br /> <br />. Navajo Dam and Reservoir is a part of the Colorado River Storage Project. <br />The Colorado River Storage Project was authorized to initiate the <br />comprehensive development of water resources of the Upper Colorado <br />River Basin, for the purpose among others, of regulating the flow of the <br />Colorado River, storing water for beneficial consumptive use, making it <br />possible for the States of the Upper Basin to utilize. consistently with the <br />provisions of the Colorado River Compact. The apportionments made to <br />and among them in the Colorado River Compact and the Upper Colorado <br />River Basin Compact, resJ:ectively, providing for the reclamation of arid <br />and semiarid land, for the control of floods, and for the generation of <br />hydroelectric power, as a incident to the forgoing purposes, <br /> <br />I. <br /> <br />The United States holds the water rights for the Navajo Reservoir under <br />pennit from the State of New Mexico and operates the reservoir, Intended <br />uses of water from Navajo Reservoir include the irrigation of about <br />110,630 acres of land on the NIIP, exchange water for the San Juan- <br />Chama Project, to make up for any deficiency in natural flow for the water <br />supply for the Hammond Project. to make water deliveries to the Lower <br />Basin States and Mexico as required by compacts and Treaties, and for <br />other beneficial uses such as municipal, industrial, and power generation, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Water to meet all intended purposes of the Navajo Unit is not contracted <br />as with other Reclamation projects in this area, Hydrologic modeling <br />perfonned as part of the Animas-La Plata Project studies indicated that at <br />depletion levels contained in the 1991 Section 7 Baseline. additional <br />annual releases of 300.000 acre-feet during May and June for endangered <br />fish and a minimum release 0000 cubic feet per second (cfs) to sustain <br />the downstream trout fishery could be made from Navajo Dam about 96% <br />of the time, It should be noted that a large portion of the water required to <br />meet the endangered fish requirement is water that would be released in <br />anticipation of spills, This portion of water would not be available from <br />stcrage, Under full development of compact allotments by Colorado, New <br />Mexico. and Utah. annual releases of 300,000 acre-feet for endangered <br /> <br />*. 1/10/97 - PREUMINARY - SUB..JECTTo REVISION - FOR DISCUSSION PURPOSES ONLY ** <br />