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II fiscal year highlights dt d~i r~.~~!~.. Generally speaking, Fiscal Year 1972 WIIS a year for slarting new facilities on the Upper Colorado RiVt~r Storage Project. Construction was inilialed on Crystal Dam, the last key feature of the Cumcanti Project, with the start of work un the diversion tunnel. When finished. this regulating dam will permit the full utiliZAtion of Morrow Point and Blue Mesa Dams which an~ now ill an opera- tion and lTlaintenance status. Construction began on the 21 mile long Jordan Aqueduct,a feature of the Central Ulah Project. Bonneville Unit. Ultimately this facility will supply 2 There were also milestones on the ope. rational aspects. On December 8, 1971, flows of Waler ,f'4 Hollm..' Creek were diverted through the new Water Hollow Tunnel into Straw- berry Reservoir of the Bonneville Unit. ~~.~?- The Meeks Cabin Reservoir of the --1. ....ymlln Project in southwest Wyoming <<-'as filled in June 1972, and the first waler was released for delivery to the waler users. ~ -/. '~r/ 79,000 acre-feet of water annually to Salt Lake County. Work was started on the badly needed steel pipe siphon replacements on the Gould Canal of the Fruitland Mesa Project. Construction also started on electric power transmission facilities in Southeastern Wyoming and North- central Colorado which will tie the hydro system of the Federal Govern. ment in with the thermal operated sys- tems in the area for overall system reliability. The water surfactl of the Flaming Gorge Reservoir on the Wyoming-Utah bordm reached an elevation of 6033 feet- only seven feet short of capacity. Project power genl'!ratioll for the yp,ar peaked at 1,305,000 kilowatts while energy production rose b}' 14 percent above Fiscal Year 1971. With an abun- dant supply of water available during the year, energy production more than doubled at thp, Flaming Gorge power facilities. Total funds returned to the Tnmsur}' for the year were $24,293.503. Of this amount, interest payments amounted to $12.693.503, and the balance of $11,600,000 was applied as payment on investment. In the planning field. the Definite Plan Report \Va.'> completed on the Savery. Pot Hook Project and advance planning started on the San r-.Hguel Project.