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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Election of Officers <br /> <br />/' <br /> <br />For your information, I have included in the Board folder a copy of Part 5 of the Water Code <br />dealing with the Colorado River Board. Chapter 3 addresses the role of the Commissioner and the <br />election of a chairman. Also included is a foldout, which shows the members of the Board, by <br />agency, from the Board's inception to pn:sent. Membership is shown as a single underscore; and <br />the chairmanship is shown as a double underscore. <br /> <br />PROTECTION OF EXISTING RIGHTS <br /> <br />Colorado River Water Report <br /> <br />During January 1998, storage in the major Upper Basin reservoirs decreased by 675,000 <br />acre-feet and storage in the Lower Basin reservoirs decreased by 98,000 acre-feet. Total System <br />active storage at the end of January was 54,024 million acre-feet (mat) or 91 percent of capacity, <br />which is 4,279 maf more than one year ago. <br /> <br />February releases from Hoover, Davis, and Parker Dams averaged 21,230, 21,730 and <br />17,160 cubic feet per second (cfs), respectively. Planned releases from those three dams for the <br />month of March are 18,380, 17,550 and 12,700 cfs, respectively. The February releases represent <br />those needed to meet downstream water requirements plus flood control releases. <br /> <br />The March 6th forecast for April through July 1998 unregulated inflow into Lake Powell is <br />7.400 maf, which is 96 percent of the 30-year average for the period 1961-1990. The unregulated <br />inflow into Lake Powell for the 1997-98 water year is predicted to be 12.243 maf, or 104 percent of <br />the 30-year average, <br /> <br />The Lower Division states' estimated consumptive use of Colorado River water for calendar <br />year 1998, as estimated by Board staff, totals 8.470 maf and is projected as follows: Arizona, <br />3.022 maf; California, 5.187 maf; and, Nevada, 0.261 maf, Estimated additional unmeasured return <br />flow credits of 0,257 mafwould reduce the total amount to 8,213 maf, For calendar year 1998, the <br />Central Arizona Project (CAP) is estimated to divert 1.503 maf and The Metropolitan Water District <br />of Southern California (MWD) to divert 1.271 maf, <br /> <br />The preliminary March 1'1 forecast of 1998 end-of-year California agricultural consumptive <br />use of Colorado River water under the first three priorities of the 1931 California Seven Party <br />Agreeme'l( is 3.857 mar This estimate is based on the collective use through February 1998 bv the <br />Palo Verde Irrigation District (PVID), the Yuma Project Reservation Division (YPRD), the Imperial <br />Irrigation District (lID), and the Coachella Valley Water District (CVWD), Figure J, found at the <br />end of this report, depicts the first forecast of end-of-year agricultural use for the year. <br /> <br />2 <br />