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<br />Recreation <br /> <br /> <br />Operations <br /> <br />Water and Power now administers recrea. <br />tion facilities at two Colorado River <br />Storage Project reservoirs: enlarged <br />Strawberry Reservoir and Fontenelle <br />Reservoir. Temporary facilities have been <br />constructed upstream from Soldier Creek <br />Dam while the reservOir is filling to the <br />level of the existing Strawberry Reservoir. <br /> <br />A new 33 unit campground and new <br />culinary water and sewer systems at <br />Fontenelle ReservoIr helped to meel <br />the needs of increasing numbers of <br />recreationisls. <br /> <br />Planning <br /> <br />Planning lor recreation development con- <br />tinued during the year. Investigations <br />were underway on the Dominguez Reser. <br /> <br /> <br />Ware<:;porI5i1llrilCIlhou:s.andS <br /> <br />vOir Project; Grand Mesa Project. Uncom. <br />pahgre Improvement PrOJect; and Upper <br />Colorado Resource Study, <br /> <br />Advanced planning for recreation <br />development continued on the Animas.La <br />Plata Project San Miguel PrOJect; <br />municipal and industrial system, Bon. <br />neville Unit; and Whlterocks Reservoir, <br />Uintah Unit, Central Utah Project. <br /> <br />Detailed site planning, design and <br />preparation of contract speCifications <br />continued on Silver Jack Reservoir, <br />Bostwick Park PrOject; McPhee Reservoir, <br />DOlores Project Ridgway Reservoir, <br />Dallas Project; and on the enlarged <br />Strawberry Reservoir, Bonneville Unit, <br />Central Utah ProJect. <br /> <br />Improvements and Additions <br /> <br />Curecanli Unit, Colorado. The tour boat <br />fides at Morrow Point ReservOir have <br />become so popular, the region is con. <br />sidering purchaSing one additional boat <br />to accommodate the demand. <br /> <br />Central Utah Project, Utah <br /> <br />Bonne"'lille Unit. The master recreation <br />plan environmental supplement for the <br />enlarged Strawberry Reservoir was com. <br />pleted_ A conSlruction package was <br />designed and awarded. The package in. <br />cluded the access road. boat ramp, and <br />parking facilities for the SOldier Creek <br />campsite. <br /> <br />Circulatory roads, boat launChing ramp. <br />culinary water system, and sewage <br />system for Currant Creek Reservoir were <br />completed. <br /> <br />Jensen Unit. The main access road. boat <br />launChing ramp, and lelleling for the new <br />recreation site were completed at Red <br />Fleet ReservOir. <br /> <br />" <br />