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<br />COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT <br /> <br />5 <br /> <br />A contract has been awarded to install two generators of 60,000 <br />kilowatts capacity each for the Morrow Point powerplant. The 120,- <br />OOO-kilowatt powerplant is being constructed as an underground in- <br />stallation, the first such rlant in reclamation history. It is being <br />carved out of the left wal of the Gunnison River Canyon just below <br />Morrow Point Dam. <br />The Morrow Point Dam and powerplant are now being constructed <br />under a $15.4 million contract awarded in May 1963. The dam is <br />scheduled for completion during the summer of 1968, and the power- <br />plant late in 1968. <br />The Crystal powerplant is scheduled .to begin operation in June <br />1973 with an installed capacity of 28,000 kilowatts. Crystal Dam <br />and Reservoir were planned to provide reregulation of the flows of <br />the Gunnison River to permit the most efficient design and operation <br />of the power facilities at Morrow Point Dam. This will permit an <br />increase in MOlTOW Point generating capacity from 40,000 kilowatts <br />to 120,000 kilowatts. The Crystal Dam access road was completed <br />on January 12, 1966. ' <br />Recreational facilities are being built by the National Park Service <br />at the Center Point site adjacent to U.S. 50 on Blue Mesa Lake. <br />A boat-launching ramp is completed and in use along with other <br />facilities which include camping and picnic sites, and marina grading. <br />A boat dock and other improvements are under contract. A test <br />well has been drilled and a boat-launching ramp has been completed <br />at the rola site. , <br /> <br />GLEN CANYON STORAGE iJN~T, ARIZONA-UTAH <br /> <br />The Glen Canyon unit is located in the Upper Colorado River <br />Basin, in northern CocpninoCounty, Ariz., and in Kane and San <br />Juan Counties in southeastern Utah. The primary purposes of the <br />unit are the regulation and storage of flows of the upper Colorado <br />River and the generation of hydroelectric power_ The last of eight <br />generators, each of which has 112,500-kilowatt capacity, began pro- <br />ducing commercial power on February 28, 1966. This gives 'the <br />pO,werplant a nameplate rating of 900,000 kilowatts. Net power <br />generation to date is 4,114,032,200 kilowatt;hours. The water sur- <br />face elevation of Lake Powell behind Glen Canyon Dam rose to its <br />maximum height of 3,545.66 at midnight on June 13, 1966. The <br />elevation at midnight on June 30, 1966, was 3,544.91 compared to <br />3,510.85 at midnight on June 30, 1965. <br />The construction of a 'joint Bureau of Reclamation-National Park <br />Service visitor center complex at Glen Canyon Dam was announced <br />on July 1, 1965. The $1,123,000 constructIOn contract was awarded <br />to Allen M. Campbell Co., of Tyler, Tex. A memorandum of agree.. <br />ment was executed during 1966 under which the Bureau will provide <br />the building and all major maintenance. The NPS will finance and <br />construct exhibits, and will staff the building. The visitor center <br />and the associated self-guided tour through the Glen Canyon power- <br />plant should be open for visitors during the summer of 1967. <br />Recreation facilities have been constructed and improved constantly <br />since the storage of water began at Lake Powell. Wahweap and Lees <br />Ferry in Arizona have boat ramps, campgrounds, picnic areas, marinas, <br />parking areas, water distribution, and sewage disposal systems. <br />Wahweap also has an administration building, a boat dock warehouse, <br /> <br />