BOARD00935

• Board Meeting Date: 9/5/1968
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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The level ,of Flaming Gorge Reservoir
on the Green River has receded from its
seasonal high at elevation 6000 feet with a
content of 2,354,000 acre-feet. It should
continue to recede to elevation 5972 by the
end of March 1969.

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Fontenelle aeservoir on the upper part
of the Green River in Wyoming was filled for
the first time since completion of the repair
work on the dam. In future years the reser-
voir will normally fill each spring, elevation
6506, and be drawn down to elevation 6485
feet late each winter. Within this type of
fluctuation, all purposes of the project will
be served and minimum amounts of water will
bypass the powerplant.

Navajo Reservoir on the San Juan River
is now at about elevation 6030 feet with a
content of about 1,020,000 acre-feet, and
should remain near this level through Septem-
ber.

Along the Gunnison River in western
Colorado, Morrow Point Reservoir should reach
its maximum water surface elevation at 7160
feet by the end of September. Its inflow is
largely controlled by the larger Blue Mesa
Reservoir, which now has 790,000 acre-feet
of storage with a water surface elevation of
7502 feet. After Labor Day, Blue Mesa Reser-
voir should recede to about elevation 7436
with a content of 351,000 acre-feet by the
end of March 1969.

Lake Mead is at elevation 1137 feet
above mean sea level or about 8 feet higher
than a year ago. It contains 15.1 million
acre-feet of available storage or 58 percent
of its capacity. The reservoir level is now
84 feet below the top of the raised spillway
gates at Hoover Dam. The lake is expected
to remain near this level through September
and then rise slowly another foot by the end
of December.

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