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<br />J':;'UU <br /> <br />which I know you are all interested in, I think <br />this probably was reported to you previously. <br />The past water year has been much below normal. <br />The April through July sno\~elt runoff totaled <br />a slim 4,600,000 acre-feet. However, runoff I~ <br />was relatively high last fall and winter so <br />that the total runoff for the water year which <br />ended on September 30 reached about 9,000,000 <br />acre-feet, or 73 percent of normal. <br /> <br />Flaming Gorge and Glen Canyon are now being <br />dra\~ down in a normal winter-type power opera- <br />tion. At Glen Canyon we have presently a little <br />in excess of 8,000,000 acre-feet. At Flaming <br />Gorge about 2,350,000. We have recently been <br />gaining a little bit of storage in Blue Mesa. <br />At present, we have a little in excess of 350,000 <br />acre-feet. The level of Navajo, however, has <br />been lowered to 5,948 to accommodate the install- <br />ation of a water supply intake at Sims Mesa by <br />the National Park Service. It will be maintained <br />at or below this level until next year's runoff <br />can be forecast. Fontenelle Reservoir storage <br />has been increased to about 40,000 acre-feet of <br />water or about 12 percent of its 345,OOO-acre- <br />foot total capacity to facilitate repairs to <br />the embankment. Refilling cannot be scheduled <br />until we can assure complete control of the <br />river and avoid any risk of a rapid and uncon- <br />trolled rise in water level on this new embank- <br />ment. It now appears that filling will be <br />delayed until at least a year from now, or <br />possibly longer, depending on the progress we <br />achieve in our embankment and stilling basin <br />repairs. <br /> <br />In summary, at the beginning of the fourth <br />quarter of calendar year 1966 the total surface <br />storage in the Upper Basin reservoirs and in I~' <br />Lake Mead was about 29.4 million acre-feet. <br />which is about the same as was in storage at the <br />same time the last year. Of this total, about <br />9.2 million acre-feet was in the active storage <br />portions of the reservoirs and, therefore, avail- <br />able for power operation. Very roughly, the <br />October and November runoff continued at about <br />