WSP00617

• File Number: 8282.600.40
• Description: Colorado River Annual Operation
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/1/1999
• Author: UCRC
• Title: Content and Streamflow of Selected Colorado River Basin Reservoirs and Tributaries
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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TO: Upper Colorado River Commissioners and Advisers

FROM: Everett E. Sunderland, Staff Engineer

DATE: March 25, 1999

SUBJECT: CONTENT AND STREAMFLOW OF SELECTED COLORADO RIVER BASIN
RESERVOIRS AND TRIBUTARIES.

UPPER BASIN RESERVOIR CONDITIONS
Conditions for selected Colorado River System reservoirs on February 28, 1999 are shown in
Table 1. Data was taken from the monthly reservoir summary provided by the Bureau of
Reclamation Upper Colorado Regional Office Water Resources Group. Reservoir storage
capacity conditions for February 28, 1999 are also shown below in figure 1.

Table 1.
STORAGE
RESERVOIR

Conditions for Colorado River System Reservoirs. Februarv 28. 1999

WATER SURFACE
ELEV!\1JON
(ft.)

RESER VOIR
LlVE CONTENT
(1000 aJ)

CHANGE IN
CONTENT
(1000 a.f)

LIVE STORAGE
CAPACITY
(1000 a.fl

LIVE STORAGE
CAP ACl1Y
(%)

Fontenel,"
Flaming verge
Blue Mesa
Navajo
Lake PO\'lei I
Upper Basin Total

6.47579
6,027.81
7,486.70
6.062.55
3,678.83

100% I

80% I
I
60% I
I
40% I
I
20% I
I
0% I
FonteneJlo

145.40
3,265.30
555.90
1,380.60
2) ,08R20
26,.U5.40

(40.20)
(7600)
(1030)
(13 80)
(25590)
(396.20)

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Conditions February 28,1999

345
3,7.\9
8:9
1.696
24.322
30,94 I

42.14%
?~7 10%
67.06%
:l1.40%
86.70%
85.44%

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11m Live Content

E3 Available Storage t

Figure 1.

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