9451

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9451
• Author: Upper Colorado River Commission.
• Title: Fifty-Fourth Annual Report of the Upper Colorado River Commission.
• USFW Year: 2002.
• USFW - Doc Type: Salt Lake City.
• Copyright Material: NO

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Letter of Transmittal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. iii

Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Alternate Commissioners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Officers of the Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Committees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Advisers to Commissioners ...............,...............,.... 5
Meetings of the Commission ....................,.............. 7
Activities of the Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
A. Engineering--Hydrology .................................... 8
1. Colorado River Salinity Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2. Forecast of Stream Flow ................................ 9
3. Summary of Reservoir Levels and Contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4. Flows of Colorado River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

B. Legal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Colorado River Storage Project and Participating Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
A. Authorized Storage Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
1. Glen Canyon Storage Unit ..........................,... 34
2. Flaming Gorge Storage Unit ........,....,............... 36
3. Navajo Storage Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
4. Wayne N. Aspinall Storage Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
5. Storage Units Fishery Information ......................... 41
B. Transmission Division .................................... 42
C. Authorized Participating Projects ............................ 43
1. Colorado .......................................... 45
2. Colorado and New Mexico .............................. 48
3. Colorado and Wyoming ................................ 49

4. New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

5. Utah ........................................,.... 50

6. Wyoming ,......,.................................. 52

7, New Mexico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
D. Recreational Use at Reservoirs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . 53
E. Status of Other Bureau of Reclamation Projects in the Upper Colorado

River Basin .......................................... 55

1. Colorado ....................,..................... 55
F. Investigations..........,............................... 56

1. New Mexico ........................................ 57

2. Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

3. Wyoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
G. Reservoir Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
1. 2001 Operations Summary and Reservoir Status ............... 61
2. 2001 Water Supply Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . 62
3. 2001 Reservoir Operations .....,........................ 63
H. Fish and Wildlife ....................................... 69

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