8042

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8042
• Author: Upper Colorado River Commission.
• Title: Eighteenth Annual Report of the Upper Colorado River Commission.
• USFW Year: 1966.
• USFW - Doc Type: Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Copyright Material: NO

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The National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service have co-
operated closely in developing recreational ~ites on Flaming Gorge
Lake. Recreation facilities have been developed at Lucerne Valley,
Antelope Flats, Buckboard Crossing, Dutch John Draw, and Cedar
Springs, where boat ramps, picnic and campground areas, concession
facilities, etc., are available for public use. Boat ramps are in use at
three other sites 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.

3. Navajo Storage Unit

Navajo Dam is now a completed structure in operational status.
Completed on August 22, 1962, the 402-foot-high 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 downstream
from the confluence of the Los Pinos and San Juan Rivers. The dam
is a zoned earthfill embankment structure. The reservoir has
1,709,000 acre-feet total capacity and an active capacity of 1,036,000
acre- feet.

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 industrial
and municipal purposes in northwestern New Mexico.

Recreation Facilities

Navajo Lake is proving to be a popular new recreation spot,
draWing visitors from many points. Visitation had reached 188,639
persons by the end of August 1966. Recreational areas have been
,<"veloped in New Mexico on the Pine River Arm just above Navajo
Dam and the Sims Mesa Recreation Site on the opposite shore and
in Colorado near Arboles on the upper portion of the lake. At the
Pine River Site a launching ramp, marina, campground, and picnic
areas are now in use. Concession permits for a lodge, restaurant, and
service station have been granted, and work on these facilities is
planned for the near future. Construction of basic facilities is nearly
completed at the Arboles and Sims Mesa Sites.