9567 ‎(2)‎

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9567
• Author: Colorado River Water Conservation District.
• Title: River of Shortages
• USFW Year: 2006.
• USFW - Doc Type: Drought, Demand and Consensus on the Colorado River - 2006 Colorado River District Annual Water Seminar.
• Copyright Material: NO

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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.

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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.

Oriqinal 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.

6,750 AF funded by the Colorado River Water
Conservation District for future water needs in the . Original dam height: 80 feet.
Yampa River Basin; 2,000 AF of this pool is to be leased
to the Recovery Program for 20 years as more water Raisedcresl,e1ev.6403
for fish flows.

The endangered fishes: Colorado pikeminnow, bony-
tail, razorback sucker, humpback chub. For more info:
http://coloradoriverrecovery.fws.gov/

The labyrinth weir
and spillway take
shape.

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Exisfing Normal Pool,
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For more information: Project Manager Ray Tenney: (970) 945-
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