7041

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7041
• Author: Upper Colorado River Commission.
• Title: Forty-Third Annual Report of the Upper Colorado River Commission
• USFW Year: 1991.
• USFW - Doc Type: Colorado River Storage Project and Participating Projects.
• Copyright Material: NO

1991,255,857 people visited Rainbow Bridge.

2. FLAMING GORGE STORAGE UNIT

Flaming Gorge Dam and Powerplant were completed in 1963. A
contract was awarded to uprate the Flaming Gorge Dam generators.
U prating of the units began in the fall of 1990 with completion scheduled
for the summer of 1992. This uprate will increase the plant nameplate
capacity from 108 megawatts (MW) to about 151 MW. Plans have been
developed for the visitor center and dam tour areas to be retrofitted to
make the facilities fully accessible to persons with disabilities.

Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, which surrounds the Flam-
ing Gorge Dam and Reservoir, recorded 2,200,000 visitors during 1990
(latest available figures). The site is administered by the Ashley National
Forest. Fishing is an important recreational activity on both the reservoir
and in the Green River below the dam.

3. NAVAJO STORAGE UNIT

The major purposes of Navajo Dam and Reservoir are to regulate the
flows of the San Juan River and to provide a water supply for the
authorized Navajo Indian Irrigation Project near Farmington, the San
Juan-Chama Participating Project in the Rio Grande Basin and the
Hammond Participating Project, all in New Mexico. Part of the water is
also used for municipal and industrial (M&I) purposes in northwestern
New Mexico. Navajo Dam was completed in 1963.

The Colorado Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation (CDPOR)
and Reclamation have entered into a Memorandum of Agreement
(MOA) for water and wastewater improvements at Navajo State Park.
The agreement also provides for the rehabilitation of five existing sites
administered by CDPOR on Reclamation projects lands on the Western
Slope.

4. WAYNE N. ASPINALL STORAGE UNIT

The Wayne N. Aspinall Storage Unit includes three major dams and
power plants in the canyon of the Gunnison River downstream from
Gunnison, eolorado and upstream from the Black Canyon of the Gunnison
National Monument. The three dams are Blue Mesa, Morrow Point and
Crystal.

Uprating of Morrow Point Dam generator number one was completed
during water year 1990. Testing of the uprated generator revealed that

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