BOARD00231

• Board Meeting Date: 11/8/1961
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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been made on the four storage units of the
Colorado River storage project; Flaming Gorge
Dam is about two-thirds completed, Glen Canyon
Dam about 60 percent completed, Navajo Dam is
90 percent finished, and a good start has been
made on the Curecanti unit.

Construction

The placement of concrete at FLAMING GORGE
DAM will be shut down early in November with
450,000 cubic yards, or nearly one-half of the
total yardage, in place. Placement will be re-
sumed when the weather breaks in the spring of
1962.

At GLEN CANYON DAM, about l,aOO,Ooo cubic
yards of concrete have been placed, of the total
of about 5,000,000 and the highest blocks now
rise more than 300 feet above the lowest bedrock
where the first bucket was placed on June 17,
1960.

Nearly 23,000,000 cubic yards of earth and
rock fill have been rolled in the embankment at
NAVAJO DAM. When completed, Navajo Dam will
contain a total of 26,300,000 cubic yards.

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On the CURECANTI UNIT, the state of Colorado
has made good progress on the relocation of U. S.
Highway 50 around the Blue Mesa damsite and future
reservoir area. In view of the work completed on
this construction, the scheduled completion date
of September 1962 for this highway relocation
should be met. An advance construction notice
was issued in October to all prospective bidders
on BLUE MESA DAM. The notice announced that the
formal invitation for bids would be issued this
winter and invited the prospective bidders to
inspect the site this fall before the onslaught
of winter weather. Bids were opened in October
for construction of facilities and buildings for
the BLUE MESA CONSTRUCTION CAMP. Early in Octo-
ber, the MORROW POINT FIELD ENGINEERING OFFICE
was opened at Montrose, Colorado, as a division
of the Curecanti Unit Office in Gunnison,