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<br />, . <br /> <br />38th Annual Report <br /> <br />The Colorado River Storage Project (CRSP), consisting of initial units and participating <br />projects, is a basin wide program of development and use of water resources of the Upper <br />Colorado River and is one of the most complex and extensive river resource developments in the <br />world. The CRSP was authorized for construction by the United States Congress in the Act of <br />April II, 1956, (70 Stat. 105). Four initial storage units were authorized by this Act: Glen <br />Canyon Dam and Reservoir (Lake Powell) on the Colorado River in Arizona and Utah; Navajo <br />Dam and Reservoir on the San Juan River in New Mexico and Colorado; Flaming Gorge Dam <br />and Reservoir on the Green River in Utah and Wyoming; and the Wayne N. Aspinall Storage <br />Unit (Aspinall Unit), formerly named the Curecanti Storage Unit and rededicated in July 198 I, <br />on the Gunnison River in Colorado. The Aspinall Unit consists of three dams and rese1'voirs: <br />Blue Mesa, Morrow Point, and Crystal. Combined, the four initial storage units provide about <br />33,583,000 acre-feet of water storage capacity. <br /> <br />In addition to the initial units, twenty-one participating projects have been authorized by <br />Congress. Eleven were authorized by the initial authorizing Act of April I I, 1956 (70 Stat. 105), <br />two were authorized by the Act of June 13, 1962 (76 Stat. 102), three were authorized by the Act <br />of September 2, 1964 (78 Stat. 852), and five were authorized by the Act of September 30, 1968 <br />(82 Stat. 886). Ten are in Colorado, three in New Mexico, two in Utah, four in Wyoming, one in <br />both Colorado and Wyoming and one in both Colorado and New Mexico. Participating projects <br />develop, or would develop, water in the Upper Colorado River System for irrigation, municipal <br />and industrial uses and other purposes; and participate in the use of revenues from the Upper <br />Colorado River Basin Fund to help repay the costs of irrigation features that are beyond the <br />ability of the water users to repay. <br /> <br />HIGHLIGHTS OF FISCAL YEAR 1994 <br />INITIAL UNITS <br /> <br />Water year 1994 reflected dry hydrologic conditions in the Basin. The northern portion of the <br />Basin had well below-average snowpack levels, and the central and southern portions of the <br />Basin had below-to-near average snowpack levels. These factors combined to produce a well <br />below-average runoff in the Green River (48 percent of average), a below-average runoff in the <br />Gunnison and Lake Powell (73 and 57 percent of average, respectively), and a below-average <br />runoff in the San Juan Basin (63 percent of average). <br /> <br />The total Colorado storage system was reduced by approximately 4, I 18 million cubic meters <br />(3,338,000 acre-feet) during water year 1994. Despite the reduction, all deliveries of water to <br />meet obligations pursuant to "The Law of the River" were maintained. <br /> <br />In 1994, Flaming Gorge was operated in accordance with the Final Draft Biological Opinion on <br />the Operation of Flaming Gorge (FDBOFG) issued in November of 1992. The FDBOFG <br />