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<br />We are a little behind schedule on placement <br />of fill there but work will proceed again at <br />full pace when the weather moderates. <br /> <br />This is not a Colorado matter but it is, <br />I think, a point of great interest in the I <br />Upper Colorado River Basin; On the 28th of <br />December the voters of the Central utah Water <br />Conservancy District favorably approved, by <br />a vote of 13 to 1, the repayment contract of <br />a little over $130 million for the construc- <br />tion of the Bonneville unit of the Central <br />utah Project. So with court confirmation com- <br />ing up we are now at the starting point of one <br />of the major participating projects. <br /> <br />Next I will review for you the status of <br />our reservoirs. Mother Nature had been real <br />kind to us up to the 1st of January but our <br />Commissioner had said 'I want you folks to <br />spend more time on your knees than on your <br />backs', and I guess we didn't get our job <br />done too \...ell because January was an e~~cep- <br />tionally dry month. Instead of having the <br />above normal forecast that we did on the 1st <br />of January of around 9 million acre-feet, we <br />are looking for something like perhaps one <br />million acre-feet less based on a very dry <br />January. <br /> <br />L~,e powell, however, has risen to a new <br />high on January 18th of a little over <br />8,800,000 acre-feet and if we get above normal <br />runoff in the balance of the season here, I <br />think ",e ",ill be up to a little over the rated <br />head of 3570 elevation. <br /> <br />Flaming Gorge now has about 2.4 million <br />acre-feet in it. Our Fontenelle Reservoir I <br />has been, of course, drawn down for the repairs <br />and when they are completed storage will again <br />be resumed there. <br /> <br />Navajo Reservoir has a present content <br />of 284,000 acre-feet. .It too has been drawn <br /> <br />r <br />