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<br />. <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />.' " , r <br />~I ':. ~~ J 'i j <br /> <br />CRYSTAL POWER PLANT AND DAM <br /> <br />Plant Contact: <br />Donald K. Phillips, Manager, Curecanti Field Division <br /> <br />Telephone Numbers: <br />Phone: (970) 240-6300 <br />Fax: (970) 240-6304 <br /> <br />E-Mail Address: <br />dphillips@uc.usbr.gov <br /> <br />Reclamation Region: <br />Upper Colorado <br /> <br />NERC Region: <br />Western Systems Coordinating Council, Rocky Mountain Power Area <br /> <br />PMA Service Area: <br />Western Area Power Administration, Colorado River Storage :rroject Management <br />Center <br /> <br />Project Authorization: <br />The Congress authorized construction of four storage units in the Colorado River Storage <br />Project and 11 participating projects on April 11, 1956, under Public Law 485, 84th <br />Congress, 70 Stat. 105. Additional projects have been added since the original legislation <br />was adopted. <br /> <br />Project Purposes: <br />The Colorado River Storage Project provides for the comprehensive development of the <br />Upper Colorado River Basin. The project furnishes the long-time regulatory storage <br />needed to permit States in the upper basin to meet their flow obligation at Lees Ferry, <br />Arizona, as defined in the Colorado River Compact and still use their apportioned water. <br /> <br />Plant Location: <br />The Crystal Powerplant is located on the Gunnison River in Montrose County, Colorado, <br />6 miles downstream of Morrow Point Powerplant and approximately 20 miles east of <br />Montrose, Colorado. <br /> <br />Plant Facts: <br />The Crystal Powerplant was completed in 1978. It has a generating capacity of28,000 <br />kilowatts from one unit driven by a 39,000-horsepower hydraulic turbine. It is connected <br />to the main Colorado River Storage Project transmission system at the Curecanti <br />substation by a 115-kilovolt line. <br /> <br />6 <br />