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UCREFRP Catalog Number
9450
Author
Land and Water Fund of the Rockies.
Title
Gunnison Basin Water
USFW Year
2003.
USFW - Doc Type
No Panacea for the Front Range.
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The Gunnison: A Basin In Balance <br />recreation, irrigation, fish and wildlife use (both in the reservoirs and in the river . <br />downstream), and meeting Colorado River Compact requirements for providing water <br />to downstream states. <br />Aspinal Unit <br />• Facilities: Blue Mesa Dam, Morrow Point Dam, Crystal Dam <br />• Year: Completed 1966, 1968, and 1976 respectively <br />• Location: Beginning 10 miles west of Gunnison to the Gunnison Tunnel <br />• Water Use: Average storage capacity of 1.2 million AF <br />Blue Mesa Dam is located about 30 miles west of Gunnison. Blue Mesa <br />Reservoir, backing upriver to the east, has a maximum storage capacity of about <br />940,000 AF and is the largest reservoir in the state. Twelve miles further downstream <br />is Morrow Point Dam. Morrow Point Reservoir can store roughly 120,000 AF. Six <br />miles below are Crystal Dam and Reservoir, which re-regulate the river, smoothing <br />out the spike flows of Blue Mesa and Morrow Point so there is a more stable release <br />into the river below the Aspinall Unit. <br />GUN ON ?''SA J/ \ 1 1 <br />t Crystal 8lve Mesa Gunnison <br />Montrose Reservoir / Reservoir Tat <br />!\I L <br />Morrow Point U <br />Reservoir <br />: <br />g? U <br />L MAG C <br />ova...., ..... ., <br />Aspinall Facilities <br />Source: CWCB <br />The Aspinall Unit holds enormous water rights in the basin and governs the <br />release of water for most of the in-stream uses described in Section B, below. It has <br />greatly changed water management in the basin and holds the potential to better meet <br />in-stream needs through re-operation of its storage and release schedule. <br />Aspinall was authorized by the Colorado River Storage Project Act ("CRSPA'), <br />wherein Congress directed the Bureau to construct dams and storage facilities to initi- <br />ate the comprehensive development of the water resources in the Upper Colorado <br />River Basin for several purposes, including irrigation, storage, flood control, and <br />hydropower.14 In 1968, the Colorado River Basin Project Act amended CRSPA to <br />establish recreation and fish and wildlife uses as primary purposes of all CRSPA <br />reservoirs." <br />The Colorado River Water Conservation District ("River District") obtained <br />conditional Colorado water rights for the Aspinall Unit (priority date November 13, <br />1957) through water court decrees in 1960 and 1961.16 The decrees were obtained for <br />• 4 • The Land and Water Fund of the Rockies
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