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<br />Fiscal Year 1978 Highlights <br /> <br />Central Utah Project. Utah <br /> <br />Bonneville Unit. A contract for a study <br />of Utah lake was awarded July 18. The <br />water quality, hydrology, and aquatic <br />biology 01 the lake will be studied. <br />A contract for Alpine Aqueduct, Section <br />1, was awarded August 28. <br /> <br />Vernal Unit. A contract was awarded tor <br />Block NO.4 drains MarCh 2. <br /> <br />Colorado River Storage Project <br /> <br />Curecaoli Unit. Colorado. Crystal Power- <br />plant was placed on line June 27 for in. <br />itial power generation. <br />Clearing 01 Crystal Reservoir was <br />completed. <br /> <br />Flaming Gorge Un.t. Utah. Installation <br />of selective Withdrawal structures in <br />Flaming Gorge Dam 10 attain down- <br />stream water temperature control was <br />essentially completed. <br /> <br />Glen Canyon Unit. Arizona/Utah. Results <br />of a monitoring program conducted <br />since February 1974 showed thai no <br /> <br />2 <br /> <br /> <br />RamDO.... efldge rlear la~e Powell <br /> <br />structural damage is occurring 10 Rain. <br />bow Bridge or its foundation from the <br />rising waters of lake Powell. <br /> <br />Dallas Creek Project, Colorado. The <br />Ridgway Field Station was completed in <br />August. <br />On June 15. the State of Colorado <br />awarded the contract for relocating 6 <br />miles 0' U.S. Highway No. 550. <br /> <br />Dolores Project, Colorado. land and <br />rights for McPhee Dam and Reservoir <br />were purchased for approximately $1.7 <br />million. <br />The 1.5 mile McPhee Access Road was <br />completed. <br />On June 6. the University of ColoradO <br />was awarded a contract to begin ar- <br />cheological salvage. More than 1.000,000 <br />artifacts were recovered the first field <br /> <br />season. This cultural resource program <br />is probably the largest ever undertaken <br />as part of a Federal construction <br />program. <br /> <br />Navajo Indian Irrigation Project, New <br />Mexico. Contract awards were made on: <br />November 25, 1977, for construction of <br />the Kutz Substation; December 23, 1977, <br />for construction of the Gallegos Sub- <br />station and for furnishing and installing <br />pumping units for Block 4; April 13, <br />1978, for the 34.5.kV transmission line to <br />Blocks 1 and 4: November 4, 1978. lor <br />the 115.kV transmission line from Kutz <br />Substation to Gallegos Substation. <br />No construction was undertaken on the <br />powerplant at Navajo Dam because a <br />court-ordered work termination was still <br />in effect. <br /> <br />Seedskadee Project, Wyoming. The <br />Service and the Wyoming Game and <br />Fish Department are cooperating in a <br />study of how varying 'lows Irom Fon- <br />tenelle Dam affect trout habitat in the <br />Green River. Runoff of the Colorado <br />River and its tributaries above lake <br />Powell was apprOKimalely 140 percent of <br />normal. This allowed some reservoirs to <br />