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<br />Curecanti Unit-Blue Mesa Reservoir <br /> <br /> <br />At the end of September 1977 Blue Mesa <br />Reservoir contained 221,000 acre-feet of <br />active water storage with a water surface <br />elevation of 7431 feet. During April and July <br />1978 inflow to Blue Mesa was 815,000 acre- <br />feet or 103 percent of normal with a 1978 <br />water year total of 1,026,000 acre-feet. Near <br />average Inflow caused the Reservoir to rise <br />through the summer to elevation 7508 feet <br />with the content of 729,000 acre-feet by the <br />end of September 1978, During water year <br />1978, minimum flow of 200 cubic feet per <br />second was maintained below the Gun- <br />nison Tunnel Diversion to protect fishery <br />resources in the river, <br /> <br />Chart 3/ Blue Mesa <br />Reservol r <br /> <br />STATISTICS <br />ACTIVE STORAGE" <br />RESERVOIR <br /> <br />(ACRE. <br />FEETI <br />829.523 <br />:N9.395 <br />81,070 <br />91BOACRES <br />24 MILES <br /> <br />7519 <br />7438 <br />7393 <br /> <br />The March 1,1978, forecast of April through <br />July 1978 inflow to Blue Mesa was 1 ,000,000 <br />acre-feet, The flood control regulations did <br />not require evacuation space during the <br />snowmelt season; consequently, the opera- <br />tion of Blue Mesa did not include releases <br />for flood control. (Chart 3,) <br /> <br />ELEVATION <br /> <br />MAXIMUM STORAGE <br />RATED HEAD <br />MINIMUM POWER <br />SURFACE AREA IFULU <br />RESERVOIR LENGTH IFUlL) <br /> <br />POWER PLANT <br />NUMBER OF UNITS 2 <br />TOTAL CAPACITY OF UNITS 60,000 KILOWATTS <br /> <br />'does noc includt 71 '.2]2 acre feel of de,d stor,ge below 7]58 feel <br /> <br />OUTFLOW <br /> <br /> :/:1'- :r~~ ~l('!; ~'~_.' >c. ,.,.fY,;} ~.,'~:, <br />m " " > w > 0 ~ ~ ,; ~ z ~ " > w > 0 .' <br />z " ~ z " <br />w < . < ~ ~ 0 u 0 ~ w < < ~ ~ 0 w <br />" . < . < ~ 0 z 0 " . < . < ~ I <br /> WaterVe;tr 1971 I WilerVear 1979 <br /> <br /> <br />"11:' ~>I..- <br /> <br />. <br />3 <br />2 <br /> <br />;!;"a.t:fl) <br /> <br />6 <br />