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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />(Slide) This slide shows the operation of .l:llue Mesa and Morrow Point <br />during this past year. Morrow Point is practically full all the time. <br />Blue Mesa was full last year and we started. drawing it down this <br />spring. We drew it down to a fairly low level, mainly to assist the <br />Colorado Highway Department in relocating a section of road around <br />the reservoir. We got it back up in June to a capacity of aroud <br />393,000 acre-feet. It is going down a little now because of the <br />poor water year in that area. It will probably continue to go down <br />through the fall and winter until next spring. <br /> <br />I want to point out here the power generation during the past year <br />at Morrow Point and Blue Mesa, as well as. other storage units, and <br />where t~e power is being used (Slide). W~ produced almost 5 million <br />megawatt-hours of power from the storage units last year. <br /> <br />(Slide).The Bostwick Park project is also located in Gunnison County, <br />south and east of Montrose. The feasibility report for the Bostwick <br />Park Efoject was completed in 1961 and the project was authorized in <br />1964 by.Public Law 88-568, ,along with the Fruitland Mesa and Savery- <br />Pot HoOk, projects. The definite plan report was completed in 1965, <br />and construction started right soon after that. We have completed <br />work on the Silver Jack dam and reservoir on Cimarron Creek about two <br />years. ago. The reservoir is full now. We are releasing water from <br />the reservoir to the water users in the Bostwick Park area. However, <br />we~ave not yet received m~ney to complete the laterals to the new <br />land area. <br /> <br />This year we,are putting ip a pipe section in the Vernal Mesa ditch <br />where the ditch comes ,off Cerro Summit. There is a .bad s1~de area <br />~here which, has cause4 trouble for years. We are doing ~ome work on <br />drainage down in the park area itself. <br /> <br />(Slide) Here"is some statistical data on the project that might be of <br />interest to you. I won't go into detail, I think most of you are <br />familiar with this. <br /> <br />(Slide) Here is a rough schedule of the work.we are performing on <br />Bostwi~k Park at the present time. As you notice, we are working on <br />the Vernal Mesa d~tch rehabilitation and we pope to award a contract <br />at the end of this fiscal year on the Bostwick lateral. The Lytle <br />lateral we moved into next year for two reasons: primarily, for money <br />and seconply, we have some problems on the Lytle lateral. The Lytle <br />lateral sk~rts around the boundary of the Black Canyon National <br />Monument haS always been quite a problem from an environmental stand- <br />point. Lytle lateral is quite doubtful economically at this time <br /> <br />-4- <br />