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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />~, I~ ~_ J J ~ <br /> <br />MORROW POINT 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 Project 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 Morrow Point Powerplant is located on the Gunnison River in Montrose County, <br />Colorado, 22 miles east of Montrose, Colorado. <br /> <br />Plant Facts: <br />The Morrow Point Powerplant chamber is tunneled into the canyon wall in the left <br />abutment <br />about 400 feet below the ground surface. The powerplant chamber is 231 feet long and 57 <br />feet wide with a height ranging from 65 to 134 feet. There are two 86,667 -kilowatt <br />generators driven by two 83,000-horsepower turbines. The power penstocks consist of <br />13.5-foot-diameter steel lines in 18-foot-diameter tunnels. <br /> <br />12 <br />