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<br />Because Wolford Mountain was the only reservoir that had not filled, fish water available in the other <br />reservoirs was utilized first. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Colorado River States Look for Ways to Stretch Water Supply: On Dee, 8, in a letter to Interior <br />Secretary Gale Norton, representatives of the seven states - Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, <br />Utah, Nevada, and California - outlined proposals for dealing with or averting shortages. The focus is on <br />three areas, including augmenting the river's flow, operating the river more efficiently by getting more <br />usable water from the existing flow and finding better ways to manage the overall system, <br /> <br />Lake Powell Still a Glass Half-Empty: Flows into Lake Powell were slightly above average this year, <br />but the giant reservoir in Utah remains far from full, officials with the Bureau of Reclamation say, In <br />2005, flows into the reservoir were about 105 percent of average. Even with that increase, Lake Powell is <br />only about half- full, holding 12 million acre-feet of water. The drought of 2002 decimated Lake Powell, <br />which acts like a water bank for the upper basin states of Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico and Utah, <br />releasing water to Lake Mead for distribution to the lower basin as required under the 1922 Colorado <br />River Compact. Flows in Lake Powell in 2002 were 25 percent of average - the lowest they had been <br />since the completion ofthe Glen Canyon Dam in 1963, <br /> <br />Some Western environmental groups are skeptical about the chances of Lake Powell ever refilling again. <br />They say the insatiable thirst of booming cities in'Arizona, California and Nevada will outweigh any <br />gains in flow the reservoir may experience. <br /> <br />This summer Interior Secretary Gale Norton rejected a request by Colorado and other upper basin states <br />to help refill the depleted reservoir by reducing outflows from Lake Powell, The move disappointed . <br />officials in the upper basin states who wanted Norton to send a message to California, Nevada, and <br />Arizona that she could curb releases in times of drought. <br /> <br />7-Basin States Cloud Seeding Report: A White Paper is being prepared about cloud seeding potential <br />in the Colorado River Basin, <br /> <br />This White Paper will be written by Don <br />Griffith, North American Weather Consultants <br />on behalf of the Upper Colorado River <br />Commission and should be completed in <br />February 2006. The CWCB has collaborated <br />with this effort by preparing a report <br />completed in January 2006, This report is <br />designed to update previous reports about <br />cloud seeding potential in the Colorado River <br />Basin from the 1960s and 1970s. The CWCB <br />enlisted the services of Reclamation to prepare <br />a report entitled "Water Augmentation from <br />Cloud Seeding in the Colorado River Basin", <br />~ 'X. This report was designed to give the most <br />, comprehensive estimates of current cloud <br />1 ,/ seeding programs in Colorado and Utah and <br />explore new target areas in those and other Upper Basin states, The analysis used GIS mapping of <br />existing cloud seeding target areas and the April I SNODAS snow water equivalent to estimate a 10% <br />increase over target areas, Although SNODAS data is only available for the last few years it was <br /> <br />Colorado River Basin Wintertime Cloud Seeding <br />Existiml ProlZrams (Bluet Potential Tanret Areas in (Red) <br />ffi 'V- ~ <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />"~ <br />~r <br /> <br />-.J' <br />; <: <br />, <br /> <br /> <br />32 <br /> <br />. <br />