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<br />.JU::;1Y <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: <br /> <br />MR. JENNINGS: <br /> <br />Arkansas. Both come into the same stream <br />and if it's possible to route some of this <br />water through the powerplants it would seem <br />foolish not to do so." <br /> <br />"Thank you very much, Mr. Greer. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />we'll now have a report from Region 4, <br />l-1r. Jennings." <br /> <br />"Mr. Chairman, members of the water Board, <br />I think you all have in your folders copies <br />of a rather complete report on Region 4 activi- <br />ties and I will try to brief that hurriedly. <br /> <br />As a general comment, we have had <br />exceptionally good construction weather this <br />fall. All construction work is progressing <br />at an expedited rate. In this business, you <br />know, we are torn between two desires, one is <br />to get a good water supply for next year and <br />the other is to have a good construction <br />season. Last year we had a good water supply <br />year; this year we are having a good construc- <br />tion season. <br /> <br />On Glen Canyon, that work is going ahead. <br />Under the prime contract,work is about 80 <br />percent completed money-wise. The highest <br />block is 565 feet above bedrock. There has <br />been about 3,900,000 cubic yards of concrete <br />placed in the dam to date. Work under the <br />completion contract is moving ahead very <br />rapidly and one of the recent contracts <br />awarded on that job was to the Westinghouse <br />Electric Company in the total amount of <br />$1,100,000 for switchyard and substation ser- <br />vices for low voltage equipment. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Moving on to Flaming Gorge, that project <br />is now about 95 percent complete as far as <br />the prime contract is concerned and on Novem- <br />ber 1st we started storage in the reservoir. <br />As an item of interest here, the flows in the <br />Green River will be restricted to about 100 <br />cubic feet per second passing through the <br />existing diversion tunnel until there is about <br />