WSP00105

• File Number: 8282.600.10
• Description: Colorado River Operating Annual Reports
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/1/1971
• Author: USDOI/BOR
• Title: Operation of the Colorado River Basin 1971 Projected Operations 1972
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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Flaming Gorge Reservoir has been operated as
part of the Colorado River Storage Project in
accordance with compacts and laws to provide
optimum power production, recreation, and
fish and wildlife,

On September 30, 1970, Flaming Gorge was at
elevation 5,980 feet with an active storage of
1,790,000 acre.feet. Power releases caused the
reservoir to recede only I foot during the fall and
winter to elevation 5,979 feet. The April.July
1971 runoff above Flaming Gorge was
1,900,000 acre-feet or 164 percent of the long.
time average, With this runoff Flaming Gorge
reached an all.time high on August 4, 1971, of
elevation 6,022 feet and an active storage of
3,046,000 acre-feet. During May 197\ the
reservoir reached elevation 5,990 feet, the
elevation above which all boat ramps of the
reservoir could be used during the recreational
season, (Chart 2)

Flaming Gorge
Reservoir

STATISTICS

RESERVOIR
MAXIMUM STORAGE
RATED HEAD
MINIMUM POWER
SURFACE AREA (FULlI
RE'SERVOIR LENGTH IFULL)
POWER PLANT

ACTIVE STORAGe--
(ACRE. FEET) ELEVATION tFEETI
3.749,000 6040
1,062.000 5946
233.000 5871
42.02DACRES
91 MILES

NUMBER OF UNITS
TOTAL CAPACiTY OF uNITS

3
108,000 KILOWATTS

'dD~S nor inclvde 40,OOOilcre 'I'1er 01 dead storage below 5740 f~r

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