BOARD02143

• Board Meeting Date: 3/8/1967
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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On the Navajo Reservoir, we estimate,
and this is based on February forecast, that
the runoff into Navajo Reservoir will be
about 850,000 acre-feet. We plan to operate
this reservoir between elevation 5,980 and
5,990 feet to provide adequate levels for
boat launching at Arboles and at the same
time limit the water level while repairs to
the stilling basin are under way.

Blue Mesa Reservoir should fill this
year. We presently have a little over a
third of the capacity filled. There are
372,000 acre-feet in the reservoir at the
present time. We anticipate that there will
be approximately a 50-foot drop during this
next fall and winter for power production.

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Moving on to our general investigations,
feasibility designs and estimates have been
completed for all project features of the
Battlement Mesa project. A meeting was held
early in December with the Bureau of outdoor
Recreation to discuss that Bureau's report
findings and recommendations. The Bureau of
outdoor Recreation agreed to reanalyze their
recreation benefits on Buzzard Creek Reser-
voir. We are currently awaiting receipt of
their revised report. A draft report has
been received from the Bureau of sport Fish-
eries and Wildlife. {"Ie are considering
further potential measures to be adopted for
reducing deer management problems that will
develop from the conversion of land now being
used for grazing use to irrigation use. No
delay in submission of the feasibility report
is expected from this aspect of the fish and
wildlife report. A draft of the proposed feasi-
bility report has been completed and is under
review in this office. The proposed feasi-
bility report is scheduled to be completed in
March 1967.

Plan formulation studies, water supply
studies, and agricultural economic studies are
continuing on the Bluestone project. Foundation