BOARD00455

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

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Glen Canyon reached a total storage of
8,645,000 acre-feet on July 27, 1967, and will
recede about 0,079,000 acre-feet by ne):t April
for a vertical drop of about 9.0 feet.

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Flaming Gorge reached its all time high on
July 29, 1967, with almost 3 million acre-feet
at elevation 6,019 or some 21 feet bel~1 its
normal maximum level. It too will recede about
20 feet between now and next spring.

Blue Mesa has been holding pretty steady
and has dropped only about 1 foot from its peak
level at elevation 7,474.1 feet reached on
July 19, 1967 when 574,900 acre-feet of water
was in storage. Commercial power production,
which begins this month, should result in a
withdrawal of storage this fall and winter to
about 36l,000 acre-feet next April at elevation
7,438.08 feet. Since snowmelt runoff of the
Gunnison River is usually more than can be
accommodated by this amount of space in the
reservoir, the chances are m:cellent that the
reservoir will fill for the first time ne::t year.

Filling of Morrow Point Reservoir should
begin in early 1969 with only a few months being
required to completely fill the reservoir.

Navajo has spilled up to a point beyond
which we would not want to go considering our
stilling basin repairs. This elevation does
place water on the boat ramp and allows full
recreation use in that reservoir.

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L~(e Mead at present has a content of
l4,240,000 acre-feet and is expected to stay at
about this level for the next year.

Under our general investigations program,
the Battlement Mesa Project report, the feasi-
bility investigations, is in the latter stages
of completion and review.

The project would develop the flows of
Buzzard Creek to provide irrigation water for