9318

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9318
• Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
• Title: Procedures for Stocking Nonnative Fish Species in the Upper Colorado River Basin.
• USFW Year: 1996.
• USFW - Doc Type: Denver.
• Copyright Material: NO

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Letter of Transmittal
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Commission ............................................ .. 2
Alternate Commissioners ................................... .. 3
Officers of the Commission ................................. .. 3
Staff ................................................. .. 3
Committees ............................................ .. 4
Advisers to Commissioners ................................. .. 5
Meetings of the Commission ................................ .. 7
Activities of the Commission ................................ .. 7
A. Engineering--Hydrology ................................. .. 8
1. Colorado River Salinity Program ......................... .. 8
2. Forecast of Stream Flow ............................. .. 9
3. Summary of Reservoir Levels and Contents . ................ .. 10
4. Flows of the Colorado River ........................... .. 21
B. Legal ............................................. ..29
1 . Water Newsletter .................................. .. 29
2. Court Cases ...................................... .. 29
3. Legislation ......................................... ..30
Colorado River Storage Project and Participating Projects ............. .. 31
A. Authorized Storage Units ................................ .. 31
1 . Glen Canyon Storage Unit ............................ .. 31
2. Flaming Gorge Storage Unit ........................... .. 35
3. Navajo Storage Unit ................................. .. 36
4. Wayne N. Aspinall Storage Unit ......................... .. 38
5. Storage Units Fishery Information ....................... .. 39
B. Transmission Division .................................. .. 39
C. Authorized Participating Projects .......................... .. 40
1. Colorado ........................................ ..41
2. Colorado and New Mexico ............................ .. 44
3. Colorado and Wyoming .............................. .. 45
4. New Mexico ...................................... ..47
5. Utah ........................................... ..48
6. Wyoming .......................................... . 50
7. New Mexico ...................................... .. 50
D. Recreational Use at Reservoirs ............................ .. 51
E. Status of Other Bureau of Reclamation Projects in the Upper Colorado
River Basin ..........................................52
1. Colorado ..........................................52
F. Investigations .......................................... 53
1. New Mexico ........................................53
2. Utah ..............................................53
3. Colorado ............................................54
G. Reservoir Operations ..................................... 54
1. 1998 Operations Summary and Reservoir Status ............... 54
2. 1999 Water Supply Assumptions .......................... 57
3. 1999 Reservoir Operations .............................. 58
H. Fish and Wildlife ....................................... 63
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