BOARD01352

• Board Meeting Date: 2/1/1966
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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which I understand has been distributed to
each of you so, with your permission, ~tr.
Chairman, I'll pass through and touch some of
the high points of it.

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I'll start first with our construction
program, beginning in the southern portion
of Region 4 at Glen Canyon. We now have
installed and in operation six of the eight
units there with a capacity now turning of
675,000 kilowatts. The two remaining units
are well advanced and we expect that they
will be commercial by the late spring or
early summer.

Blue Mesa, since our last report to you,
has been topped out and water is being im-
pounded in the reservoir, and as of last week
has reached a total storage of about 112,000
acre-feet.

On the 2nd of December a contract for a
little over $1 million was awarded to the
Eagle Construction Company of Loveland,
Colorado for the completion of the Blue Mesa
powerplant.

At Morrow point, again because of the
rather cool weather down in the bottom of the
canyon, all outside work has stopped. But
the excavation of the tunnels and the under-
ground powerplant is continuing at full pace.
Some of the interior work is being accomplished
to stabilize the rock inside.

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The very difficult access road to the
Crystal damsite, again in the BlaCk Canyon of
the Gunnison River, is completed. Our present
schedules call for invitations to bids for
the Crystal Dam installation within the very
near future - within a few weeks.

At Rifle Gap Dam the outside work, of
course, has slowed down. He did not get the
diversion made last fall as we had hoped.