WSP12936

• File Number: 8220.100.35
• Description: Colorado River Basin Monthly Content Reports
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/20/2004
• Author: Upper Colorado River Commission
• Title: 2004 reports: Content and Power Generation and Streamflow of Selected Colorado River Basin Reservoirs and Tributaries
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Data

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To:

Upper Colorado River Commissioners and Advisers

From:

Staff

Date:

January 20, 2004

Subject:

MONTHL Y CONTENT, POWER GENERATION AND STREAM FLOW OF
SELECTED COLORADO RIVER BASIN RESERVOIRS AND TRlBUT ARlES

UPPER BASIN RESERVOIR CONDITIONS
Conditions for selected Colorado River System Reservoirs on December 31,2003 are shown in Table 1.
Data was obtained from the monthly reservoir summary provided by the Bureau of Rec1amation Upper
Colorado Regional Office Water Resources Group. Reservoir storage capacity conditions for Decem-
ber 31, 2003 are also shown below in figure 1.

Table 1

Conditions for Colorado River System Reservoirs: December 31. 2003

STORAGE
RESERVOIR

WATER SURFACE RESERVOIR CHANGE IN LIVE STORAGE LIVE STORAGE
ELEV A nON LIVE CONTENT CONTENT ' CAP ACITY CAPACITY
(ft.) (1000 a.f.) (1000 a.f.) (1000 a.f.) (%)

Fontenelle 6,485.47 198.70 -18.90 345
Flaming Gorge 6,008.91 2,606.10 -8.30 3,749
Blue Mesa 7,460.89 376.60 5.80 829
Navajo 5,996.63 712.20 -0.80 1,696
Lake Powell 3,597.22 11,486.80 -309.10 24,322
Upper Basin Total 15,380.40 -331.30 30,941

57.59%
69.51%
45.43%
41.99%
47.23%
49.71 %

Live Storage Capacity
Conditions December 03

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