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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 ollhe 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 for <br />Block No_ 4 drains March 2. <br /> <br />Colorado River Storage Project <br /> <br />Curecanti Unit, Colorado. Crystal Power. <br />plant was placed on line June 27 tor in- <br />itial power generation. <br />Clearing of Crystal Reservoir was <br />completed. <br /> <br />Flaming Gorge Unit, Utah - Installation <br />of selective withdrawal structures in <br />Flaming Gorge Oam to altain down. <br />stream waler 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 that no <br /> <br />2 <br /> <br /> <br />Ralrlbow e"dga!'lear lake Po...ell <br /> <br />structural damage is occurring to Rain. <br />bow Bridge or its loundation Irom the <br />rising waters 01 Lake Powell. <br /> <br />Dallas Creek Project, Colorado, The <br />Ridgway Field Stalion was completed in <br />August. <br />On June 15, the State of Colorado <br />awarded the contract for relocating 6 <br />miles of 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 />Me:dco . Contract awards were made on: <br />November 25. 1977. for construction of <br />the Kutz Substatlon; December 23, 1977, <br />lor construction of the Gallegos Sub- <br />station and for furniShing and installing <br />pumping umts for Block 4: April 13, <br />1978, lor the 34.5-kV transmission hne to <br />Blocks 1 and 4; November 4. 1978, for <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 elfect. <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 flows 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 approximately 140 percent 01 <br />normal. This allowed some reservoirs to <br />