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• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 1005
• Author: WBLA.
• Title: Curecanti Minimum Stream Flow Water Rights Study-Draft.
• USFW Year: 1986.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

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D. Definitions

The following defini hons wi 11 be used in this study.

1. Virgin flow or undepleted inflow means the "natural flow" data

developed by the USBR for use in the Colorado River Simulation System

(CRSS), as distinguished from earlier, less consistent virgin flow data

developed by the Engineering Advisory Committee for the Upper Colorado

River Basin Commission and others. Both virgin flow and natural flow

refer to the flow that would have occurred had there been no man-made

developments.

2. Curecanti Project or Unit means the unit of the Colorado River

Storage Project consisting of the Blue Mesa, Morrow Point, and Crystal

reservoirs along with appurtenant dams and hydropower plants. The

Curecanti Unit has recently been renamed the Wayne N. Aspinall Unit. Any

reference to Blue Mesa reservoir, hydropower plant, or water right decrees

is limited to just those components and does not include Morrow Point or

Crystal components.

3. ASP refers to the computer model developed by the USBR to analyze

hydropower production at the Curecanti or Aspinall Unit.

4. Blue Mesa storage releases mean any evacuation of water from Blue

Mesa storage for minimum stream flow purposes, for municipal and

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