7901

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7901
• Author: Upper Colorado River Commission.
• Title: Forty-Seventh Annual Report of the Upper Colorado River Commission.
• USFW Year: 1995.
• USFW - Doc Type: Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Copyright Material: NO

2. Flaming Gorge Storage Unit

Flaming Gorge Dam.and Powerplant were completed in 1963. Uprating
of the units in 1992 increased the plant nameplate capacity from 108
megawatts (MW) to about 151 MW. Plans have been develop,ed to retrofit
the visitor center and dam tour areas to make the facilities fully accessible to
persons with disabilities.

Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, which surrounds Flaming Gorge
Dam and Reservoir, recorded approximately 2,OOO,000visitors during 1994.
The site is administered by the Ashley National Forest. Fishing is an
important recreational activity both on 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 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 for water and
waste water improvements at Navajo State Park. The cooperative agreement
also provides for the rehabilitation of four existing sites administered by the
CDPOR on Reclamation projects lands on the Western Slope.

The State of New Mexico has also entered into a cooperative agreement
with Reclamation to upgrade and/or replace worn-out and over-used
recreation facilities on the New Mexico side of Navajo Reservoir. Total
visitation to Navajo Reservoir was 545.474 people for 1994.

4. Wayne N. Aspinall Storage Unit

The Aspinall Unit includes three major dams and powerp/ants in the
canyon of the Gunnison River downstream from Gunnison, Colorado 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 units was completed in 1993.
The plant nameplate capacity was increased from 120 MW to 156 MW.

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