BOARD00549

• Board Meeting Date: 3/14/1979
• Description: Agenda, Minutes, Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD MEETING MINUTES
Holiday Inn Denver Downtown
Denver, ColoradO

March 14, 1979

The ColoradO Water Conservation Board met, pursuant to notice, at
10:00 a.m., Benjamin F. Stapleton, Chairman, presiding.

MR. STAPLETON: Let's call this regularly scheduled meeting of the
ColoradO Water Conservation Board to order. I would like to particu-
larly welcome to the Board today the Attorney General of the State of
Colorado, J. D. MacFarlane. We are delighted to have you with us.

MR. MacFARLANE: Thank you.

MR. STAPLETON: The agenda calls for some reports from the regions, and
I would like to call first on J. R. Rinckel, of the Upper ColOrado
Region, to report.

MR. RINCKEL: Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the Board and
ladies and gentlemen.

Our Regional Director has asked me to apologize
this morning, and he asked me to represent him.
banquet this evening. So you can talk with him

for his not being here
He will be at the
there.

I appreciate very much the opportunity to bring you up to date on the
status of our projects. We have provided you with a blue book, which
is in front of you, which summarizes the status of all the projects in
Western ColoradO in greater detail and greater description than what I
propose to give here. If you have any questions about that, you can ask
me after I give a briefing here or at a later time.

I thought it would be interesting and maybe a little different this
time to give you a report on our water supply outlook. This is rather
an unusual year, and we are coming up with some figures that are a little
bit different than normal. This water supply information is based on
March 1 readings and also assumes that we will have average precipita-
tion through the remainder of the water year.

First of all, for Lake Powell, the projection for the April-July inflow
is 11.5 MAF. This is 144 percent of the average and compares to 9;5 MAF
March 1 of 1978, and 2.2 MAF in the dry year of March of 1977.

The forecast for the 1979 water-year runoff above Glen Canyon is about
133 percent of normal. The elevation of Lake Powell on March 11 was
3,630 feet with an active storage of 15.35 MAF, or about 61 percent of
capacity.

On the Flaming Gorge Reservoir, the April-July inflow estimate is 1.3
MAF, which is 116 percent of normal. Lake elevation is 6,005 feet,
which is 67 percent of capacity. On the Curecanti unit, Blue Mesa, the