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<br />Navajo Reservoir
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<br />STATISTICS
<br />ACTIVE STORAGE-
<br />RESERVOIR (ACRE. ELEVATION
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<br />MAXIMUM STORAGE 1,696.400 6085
<br />INACTIVE STORAGE 660.500 5990
<br />SURFACE AREA IFULL) 15.610 ACRES
<br />RESERVOIR LENGTH
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<br />During water year 1976, Navajo Reservoir was
<br />kept within the limits specified by the Bureau of
<br />Reclamation in its interim operation rules. The
<br />reservoir water surface was lowered to elevation
<br />6,038 feet during the winter of 1975 and spring
<br />of 1976. The actual April-July inflow to Navajo
<br />Reservoir was 496,000 acre-feet, or 67 percent of
<br />the long-time April-July runoff average above
<br />Navajo. The seasonal high occurred in July with
<br />the water surface reaching elevation 6,056 feet
<br />and a live storage of 1,292.'~pO acre-feet. .
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<br />Navajo Reservoir is operated under a formal flood
<br />control plan. On March 1, .1976, Navajo Reservoir
<br />had 1,091,000 acre-feet of water in storage. The
<br />April'July inflow forecast on' March 1 was600,000
<br />acre-feel. Based on the March 1 forecast, the cur-
<br />rent flood control diagram allowed the reservoir
<br />to be full, and the scheduled operation of the
<br />reservoir did not include any releases specifically
<br />requi red for flood control. (Chart 5.)
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<br />Releases were scheduled to control downstream
<br />flows to the minimum level practicable' in order
<br />to minimize bank erosion.
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