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<br />., <br /> <br />oozan <br /> <br />. . <br />EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S MONTHLY REPORT <br />TO THE <br />COLORADO RIVER BOARD OF CALIFORNIA <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />REC\E.NE'J <br />f E'O 2. \) 2UU1 <br /> <br />COllSeT\'atio!"l Board <br />Cololado Wa..' <br /> <br />February 13. 2001 <br /> <br />ADMINISTRATION <br /> <br />With the conclusion of the February Board meeting, Mr. Douglas Noble will have attended <br />his last meeting of the Colorado River Board. Doug, after more than 30 years of service with the <br />Attorney General's Office, has elected to retire and pursue his avocation for traveling and <br />photography. I personally want to thank him for the excellent advice and counsel that he has <br />provided to me during the ten years I have been Executive Director of the Board. <br /> <br />PROTECTION OF EXISTING RIGHTS <br /> <br />Colorado River Water Reoort <br /> <br />During December 2000, storage in the major Upper Basin reservoirs decreased by 549,000 <br />acre-feet and storage in the Lower Basin reservoirs increased by 95,000 acre-feet. Total System <br />active storage as of the end of December was 49.395 million acre-feet (maf) or 83 percent of <br />capacity, which is 4.878 maf less than one year ago. <br /> <br />January releases from Hoover, Davis, and Parker Dams averaged 11,200,9,950 and 5,460 <br />cubic feet per second (cfs), respectively. Planned releases from those three dams for the month of <br />February 2001 are 13,100, \3,100 and 8,500 cfs, respectively. The February releases represent those <br />needed to meet downstream water requirements and to conduct dredging operations above Morelos <br />Dam. <br /> <br />The Lower Division states' estimated consumptive use of Colorado River water for calendar' <br />year 2001, as estimated by Board staff, totals 8.453 maf and is projected as follows: Arizona, <br />3.031 maf; California, 5.127 maf; and Nevada, 0.295 maf. Estimated additional unmeasured return <br />flow credits of 0.237 mafwould reduce the total amount to 8.216 maf. For calendar year 2001, it <br />is estimated the Central Arizona Project (CAP) will divert 1.620 maf, of which 0.315 maf is to be <br />credited to the Arizona Water Bank, and that The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California <br />(MWD) will divert 1.235 maf. <br /> <br />The preliminary estimate of200l end-of-year California agricultural consumptive use of <br />Colorado River water under the first three priorities and the sixth priority of the 1931 California <br />Seven Party Agreement is 3.833 maf. This estimate is based on the collective use through January <br />2001 by the Palo Verde IrrigationDistrict (PVID), the Yuma Project Reservation Division (YPRD), <br />the Imperial Irrigation District (lID), and the Coachella Valley Water District (CVWD). Figure I, <br />found at the cnd of this report, depicts the historic projected end-of-year agricultural use for the year. <br />