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x s. A' I - - K 1'.. 5 L_ ;a . 71 Earth movers continue to build the height of the dam. It will reach 25 feet above the exist- ing dam. At top left, the new embankment approached the old dam road height at the end of August 2006. New reservoir • Dam height: Rises by 25 feet from 80 feet to 105 feet; Reservoir level to rise by 20 feet at fill. • Spillway capacity: 28,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) to meet safety standards for high runoff. • Active water storage increase: Plus 11,750 acre-feet (AF) for a total of 25,450 AF. Original pool was 13,700 AF. • 5,000 AF of the increase is allocated for endangered fishes in the Yampa River, funded by the Upper Colorado Endangered Fish Recovery Program. • 6,750 AF funded by the Colorado River Water Conservation District for future water needs in the Yampa River Basin; 2,000 AF of this pool is to be leased to the Recovery Program for 20 years as more water for fish flows. • The endangered fishes: Colorado pikeminnow, bony- tail, razorback sucker, humpback chub. For more info: http://coloradoriverrecovery.fws.govi The labyrinth weir j and spillway take shape. u-" Original reservoir • Constructed in 1974 by the Colorado Division of Wildlife to hold 13,700 acre-feet (AF) of water. An acre-foot is about 326,000 gallons and is enough to supply two average households for a year. • 8,310 AF allocated for cooling water for the Craig Coal Fired Power Plant. • 5,390 AF allocated as a recreation pool. • Original dam height: 80 feet. Raised crest elev. 6403 Raised Normal Pod, elev. 6388 ng crest, elev. 6378 ' Existing Normal Pod, elev. 6368 www.ColoradoRiver District.org For more information: Project Manager Ray Tenney: (970) 945- 8522, ext. 220; rtenney@crwcd.org. Jim Pokrandt, CRWCD commu- nications: (970) 945-8522, ext. 236; jokrandt@crwcd.org L.... HEAD F_ K V C') I K K G, 1` hrt t- N