8041

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8041
• Author: Upper Colorado River Commission.
• Title: Seventeenth Annual Report of the Upper Colorado River Commission.
• USFW Year: 1965.
• USFW - Doc Type: Salt Lake City, Utah`.
• Copyright Material: NO

of power will be used to help pay construction costs of the dam and
reservoir and assist in repayment of irrigation costs of participating
projects,

Recreation Activities

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During the past year recreation facilities on Flaming Gorge
Lake were unable to accommodate the influx of visitors to that
area on the major holidays, The actual number of visitors to Sep-
tember of 1965 was 2 Y2 times the number forecast when planning
for the area was started in 1957. Visitors to the Flaming Gorge a'rea
for the calendar year 1965 through September totaled 691,000. This
included 105,000 over the Memorial Day, July 4, and July 24 week-
ends. Development of recreation facilities has been mainly at the
four major recreation areas - Lucerne Valley, Antelope Flats, Dutch
John Draw, and Cedar Springs - where boat ramps, picnic and
campground areas, concession facilities, etc., are available for public
use, Boat ramps have been constructed at four other sites at
convenient intervals on the central and upper portions of the lake.
Basic facilities will be established in these areas as the need arises
and funds are made available.

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3. Navajo Storage Unit

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Navajo Dam is now a completed structure in operational status.
Completed on August 22, 1962, the dam was dedicated by Secretary
of the Interior Stewart L, Udall on September 15, 1962. Storage
of water was initiated on June 27, 1962, marking the first storage of
water in a storage unit of the Colorado River Storage Project,

Navajo Dam is located in northwestern New Mexico on the
San Juan River, 34 miles east of Farmington and 3% miles down-
stream from the confluence of Los Pinos and San Juan Rivers. The
dam is a zoned earth-fill embankment structure. The reservoir has
1,709,000 acre-feet total capacity and an active capacity of 1,036,000
acre-feet.

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The major purpose of this reservoir is to regulate the flows of
the San Juan River for the authorized Navajo Indian Irrigation
Project near Farmington, the San Juan-Chama participating project
in the Rio Grande Basin, and the Hammond participating project.
Part of the water to be made available will also be used for indus-
trial and municipal purposes in northwestern New Mexico.