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ELEVENl'H A1lNUAL REPORT COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJ'EC'l' AND PARTICIPATING PROJEC'l'S mTRODUC'l'ION Eleven years ago Congress authorized the Colorado River storage Project, thus setting in motion one of the most comprehensive river basin develop- ment plans ever conceived. The physical features of the units of the Colorado River Storage Project and participating projects vary in size from Glen Canyon Dam down to the smallest canal and irrigation headgate. Yet all features have but one general purpose: to develop available water supplies in the U,pper Basin of the Colorado River. The CRSP has today passed beyond the intensive heavy construction phase that characterized its first decade. During the first few years, priority had to be given to the big storage units, Glen eanyon, Flaming Gorge, and Navajo, where most of the water to meet downstream committments would be stored. Navajo Unit was substantially completed in August 1962 and now serves to regulate the flows of the San Juan River for the authorized Navajo Indian Irrigation, San Juan Chams, and Hammond Projects. Water from this source has also been made available for municipal and industrial purposes. Also of great importance was the need to put Glen Canyon and Flaming Gorge Powerplants on the line--to secure a major source of revenue to help repay project costs. The first commercial power of the CRSP was produced at Flaming Gorge in November 1963. The last of its three generators began producing in February 1964. At Glen Canyon the powerplant began operation in September 1964, and the last of its eight generators was put on the line in February 1966. The fourth storage unit, Curecanti, remains in construction status, al- though parts of this three~ complex are near completion. Blue Mesa Dam was essentially finished in F. Y. 1966, and. its 60 megawatt powerplant is scheduled to be put on the line in September 1967. MOrrow Point Dam will shortly be "topped out" by placement of the last bucket of concrete. Crystal Dam, farther down the Gunnison River, is not yet under construction. Of the eleven participating projects originally authorized in 1956, the Jililery County Project and Vernal Unit of the Central Utah Project in Utah, the Paonia, Florida, and Smith Fork Projects in Colorado, and. the Hammond Project in New Mexico have been substantially completed. Jililery County Project is being operated by the Bureau of Reclamation. Lemon Dam of the Florida J')~oject is being operated by the Bureau of Reclamation while the conveyance and distribution facilities are being operated by the water users. Paonia and Smith Fork Projects are operated and maintained by the water users. Hammond. Project is supplying water to project lands on a water rental basis. The Vernal Unit of the Central Utah Project, is being operated and maintained by the water users.