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3 <br />• PROJECT Flaming Gorge Reservoir <br />LOCATION Daggett County, NE Utah <br />Green River (U 3) <br />SPONSOR U.S. Bureau of Reclamation <br />DATE OF SHEET October 18, 1977 <br />TYPE OF FACILITY Storage Reservoir, hydro-electric power production <br />STATUS Completed 1963 <br />COMPONENTS <br />L_J <br />Flaming Gorge Dam (approximately 32 river miles down- <br />stream from Utah - Wyoming border), 502 ft. high <br />Reservoir: maximum depth, 450 ft., total capacity - <br />3,789,000 AF, storage ratio - 1.7 years, surface <br />area - 42,000 ac., average depth - 90 ft. <br />PROJECTED IMPACTS ON THE COLORADO RIVER SYSTEM <br />Inundated 72 river miles of endemic fish habitat <br />Drastically altered 65 river miles below reservoir: <br />altered seasonal flows <br />decreased summer water temperature <br />increased winter water temperature <br />reduced turbidity <br />removes approximately 50,000 AF of water per year <br />reduced scouring of river habitat <br />REFERENCES <br />Vanicek, C. D., R. H. Kramer and D. R. Franklin. 1970 <br />Distribution of Green River fishes in Utah and <br />Colorado following closure of Flaming Gorge Dam, <br />Southwest Nat. 14(3):297-315., <br />