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<br />.."vv""' <br /> <br />brought with me the results of the storage as <br />of November 9th in our three main structures. <br />At Glen Canyon we had 2,682,000 acre-feet in <br />storage; at Flaming Gorge, 916,500 acre-feet; <br />and at Navajo, 373,200 acre-feet. We hope that <br />by next spring we can better that substantially. <br /> <br />I, <br /> <br />On the Curecanti unit, Blue Mesa Dam and <br />Powerplant, this work, under the prim~ contract, <br />is about 45 percent completed. On October 8th <br />the flow of the Gunnison River was diverted <br />through the diversion tunnel to bypass the dam <br />area proper. The contractor has started on <br />his foundation excavation in the river channel <br />and this material that he. is excavating from <br />the river channel is then placed in the upstream <br />zone of the dam. <br /> <br />At Morrow Point the contractor is continu- <br />ing with essentially preparatory work; building <br />his access road. He is also preparing his <br />foundation for the tail towers, the cable way, <br />across the dam area. As a matter of interest, <br />I think you gentlemen saw those tail towers when <br />you were at Flaming Gorge. He will use those <br />same towers at the Morrow Point Dam. Actual <br />work on the dam proper is about 2~ percent com- <br />pleted as of the present time. <br /> <br />On the highway relocation, the second seg- <br />ment of u. S. Highway 50 was completed and has <br />been put in operation. The third segme~t is <br />under way. This is the segment through Gunni- <br />son Canyon and it consists principally of <br />pioneering through this canyon area, principally <br />rock excavation. Some structural steel has been <br />placed on the bridge across the Gunnison River <br />which takes off from Highway 50 and goes to <br />Lake City. <br /> <br />Very good progress has been made on the <br />Transmission system. One new item is that a <br />section of the 85 mile 230-kv transmission line <br />from Curecanti to Midway, bids have been opened <br />on this section. Award is pending. The bid on <br />this section was about $3~ million. <br /> <br />I <br />