BOARD01820

• Board Meeting Date: 4/14/1965
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. GOODWIN:

"Thank you."

MR. SPARKS:

"I might add a note of explanation about
the interrelationship of those two reservoirs.
We anticipate that Lake Mead will be brought
back up to its rated head early in July. While
this is being brought back up to rated head,
the turbines at Glen Canyon cannot take the
amount of water that is being released through
Glen Canyon. That is, there are only four tur-
bines on the line at the present ti~ with the
fifth one due in in May. So during the peak
runoff we anticipate that five turbines will
be in operation; however, they cannot take all
of the water that will be coming through.

At such time as Lake Mead is brought back
up to its rated head of l4~ million feet, then
we will immediately plug the bypass tunnel at
Glen Canyon. This means, then, that Glen Can-
yon cannot be drained below its minimum power
head in the future. The water is physically
trapped at a point of about 6,200,000 feet,
and it cannot be drawn below that. Anything
then that runs through Glen Canyon can run
through the turbines so that all water there-
after will be available for the generation of
power at Glen Canyon. Actually there will be
dead storage in Glen Canyon of 6,200,000 acre-
feet. On top of that we anticipate another
2,000,000 feet of storage during this year. So
Glen Canyon, before the year is out, will
actually be brought up to about 8,200,000 feet.
The generators are being installed at a very
rapid rate. Then in the future, all water
that goes through Glen Canyon will generate
power for our Upper Basin Fund.

At the present time we are paying for the
power deficiencies at Hoover as a result of
storage in Glen Canyon. This was something
that we pointed out several years ago would
seriously deplete the Basin Fund. Up to the
present time this practice has cost the Basin
Fund in excess of $5 million. We have a bill
in Congress to recoup that $5 million plus