WSP04343

• File Number: 7630.325
• Description: Wild and Scenic-Gunnison River-Curecanti Unit
• State: CO
• Basin: Gunnison
• Water Division: 4
• Date: 12/1/1986
• Author: WBLA inc
• Title: Gunnison-Curecanti-Curecanti Instream Flow Water Rights Study
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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2. Curecanti Project or Unit means the unit of the Colorado River Storage

Project consisting of the Blue Mesa, Morrow Point, and Crystal reservoirs

along with appurtenant dams and power plants. The Curecanti Unit has

recently been renamed the Wayne N. Aspinall Unit. Any reference to Blue

Mesa reservoir, hydropower plant, or water right decrees is limited to

just those components and does not inciude Morrow Point or Crystal

components.

3. ASP refers to the computer model developed by the USBR to analyze

power production at the Curecanti or Aspinall Unit. This model does not

consider water right priorities or assign shortages in dry years, and does

not keep track of credits at Blue Mesa under the Taylor Park exchange.

The depletion data incorporated in the ASP model also appears somewhat

anamolous and have not been fully documented.

4. Blue Mesa storage releases mean any evacuation of water from Blue

Mesa storage for the maintenance of instream flows, for municipal and

industrial supply, or to reduce the storage contents of Blue Mesa to meet

operational targets. All such releases are routed through the Blue Mesa

power plant and are considered proprietary in this study with the USSR

retaining dominion over the water until the purposes for which they were

made are satisfied. A release to make target can also serve another

purpose like instream flow maintenance or municipal and industrial supply.

WBLA, Inc. 1909 Broadway, #3, Boulder, Colorado 80302