BOARD01914

• Board Meeting Date: 12/4/1974
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

Mr. Wiscombe, who is our project manager of our western Colorado project
office. His planning officer, Mr. Rinckel, and the man looking after
our affairs in southwestern Colorado at the office in Durango. Mr. Cook.
With your permission. I will ask them to provide you with copies of
this report.' There are a lot of detailed facts and perhaps you can
follow what I am going to report to you a little better with these
numbers in front of you.

Now the report itself is broken down into several main categories. The
first is a general interest status on our water supply operations,
power and construction programs. The second main category is the spe-
cificstatus of the planning and the advance planning programs. The
third category is a listing of the specific questions that your director,
Mr. Sparks, posed to me in a letter on the 31st of October. And finally,
I have a brief on the new budgetary control act. which may be helpful
to you.

So perhaps it might be well to concentrate on the responses first. And
then if you have questions we are here to provide information and what
assistance we are able to in the time that we have.

Just to give us a little perspective here, we have in our planning pro~
grams (this is the final detailed study of the authorized projects, the
seven authorized projects) and the general investigation, a total of
about $4,287,000. We have a construction program in Colorado of fourteen
and a half million dollars. This is largely Crystal Dam. And then we
have an operation and maintenance program, most of which is in Colorado,
dealing with our power operation system and the purchase of power and
transmission of eighteen and a half million dollars. So that adds up
to a rather substantial total amount of money.

~ will 90w go through my written report.

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I. EXISTING PROJECTS IN WESTERN COLORADO

A. Reservoir opetati6n:s

1. In the Upper Colorado River Basin, the total runoff for
the water year, which ended September 30, 1974, was
10,450,000 acre-feet, or 86 percent of normal. The
disposition of this amount was as follows:

Net storage increase
Bank storage
Evaporation loss
Releases to Lower Basin
Total Runoff
WY 1974

600,000 Ac.-Ft.
980,000 II
610,000 "
8,260,000 "

10,450,000

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2. Lake Powell reached a record high at 3,667-foot elevation
on June 30, 1974, with a live surface storage of "
20,100,000 acre-feet. The lake is now at elevation
3,650 feet. Is expected to recede about four feet before
the 1975 spring runoff.

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