Laserfiche WebLink
<br /> <br /> <br />~-:-;-'''':7-,--- - <br /> <br />'., <br />".;, <br /> <br />'..". <br /> <br />Frances Canyon, Navajo Reservoir, Navajo Unit, Colorado River <br />Storage Project, New Mexico <br /> <br />Authoritu tor <br />Report <br /> <br />Pursuant to the Colorado River Basin Project <br />Act (P,L. 90-537) of 1968, I am pleased to present <br />to the Congress and to the governors of the Colo- <br />rado River Basin States, the first Annual Report <br />on the Operation of the Colorado River. <br /> <br />This report describes the actual operation of <br />the reservoirs in the Colorado River drainage area <br />constructed under the authority of the Colorado <br />River Storage Project Act, the Boulder Canyon <br />Project Act, and the Boulder Canyon Project Ad- <br />justment Act during water year 1971 and the pro- <br />jected operation of these reservoirs during water <br />year 1972 under the Criteria for Coordinated <br />Long-Range Operation of Colorado River Reser- <br />voirs published in the Federal Register June 10, <br />1970, <br /> <br />ROGERSC. B, MORTON <br />Secretary, United States <br />Department of the Interior <br /> <br />Introduction <br /> <br />The operation of the Colorado River during <br />both the past year and the projected operation for <br />the current year reflects domestic use, irrigation, <br />hyd'roelectric power generation, fish and wildlife <br />propagation, recreation, flood control, and Colo- <br />rado River Compact requirements, <br /> <br />Storage and release of water from the Upper <br />Basin reservoirs recognize all applicable laws and <br />relevan t factors governing the Colorado River in- <br />cluding the impoundment of water in the Upper <br />Basin required by Section 602(a) of Public Law <br />90-537, The operation of the Lower Basin reser- <br />voirs rellect Mexican Treaty obligations and Low- <br />er Basin contractual commitments. <br /> <br />ii <br />