BOARD00455

• Board Meeting Date: 9/7/1967
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

JUUO

the Storage project supplied all the energy
deficiency losses at Hoover Dam resulting from
the filling of upper Basin reservoirs. During
that period, deficiencies were reduced to about
685 million kilowatt-hours compared with about 1
900 million kilowatt-hours during the 12-month
period ending July 1, 1966. It appears that
during the 1967-68 winter, we will also be able
to replace Hoover deficiencies from Storage
project generation.

Mother Nature did not deal with us too
kindly this past runoff period. All the results
are in and it looks like we have about a 71
percent of normal for the April-July period and
about 75 percent is expected for the water year
which will end the 30th of September. To give
you a couple of numbers, the April-July was
6,045,000 acre-feet and the total for the year
will be about 9,357,000 acre-feet.

I might comment a little on our status of
meeting the 75 million acre-foot delivery to
the Lower Basin during the ten-year period
following the initial filling of the Storage
project reservoirs. The first five years, the
delivery has been 3l.4 million acre-feet, leav-
ing about 43.6 acre-feet or an average of 3.7
acre-feet to be met during the remaining five
years to attain this total of 75 million acre-
feet. Power loads are increasing and to meet
them will require the release of this amount
of water. The relatively low delivery for the
past 5 years was caused primarily by the low
releases of 1963 and 1964 which were necessary
to permit acquisition of minimum power levels
at Flaming Gorge and Glen Canyon. Only about
5 million acre-feet was released to the Lower
Basin of a total inflow of about 12,700,000
acre-feet in this 2-year period.

The Flaming Gorge and Blue Mesa Reservoirs
and Lake Powell achieved seasonal maximum levels
in July and will decline somewhat until the
snowmelt season next spring.

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