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I I 1,.:1$ dam we~la fta~e a 01 ~6ant at th~ dam Navajo --". j The Navajo Dam is l09ated on total capacity of 3,789,000 acre-feet. The power- I,,,.s ' ~jli\ila ha'le a capacity o,f 118, 000 kilo~latts. the San Juan River in north- i western New Mexico about 34 miles east of tpe town of Farmington. ,,' The dam is a rolled, earth-filled structure rising 335 feet above , I streambed. Navajo Reservoir has a total capacity of 1,709,000 . .1 , ~ {ii~-Y#''''SJ!9il The dam and reservoir -wli.l..J:",provide4 fOr gravity ~;i,.- aCre-feet. i ~~ for white and Indian lands to be irrigated under the Navajo project. Also, in connection with the San Juan-Chama project, the reservoir constitutes a source of supply for downstream irrigation ~sers in exchange for natural flow diverted upstream. Glen Canyon I The Glen Canyon Dam is located on the Colorado River in northern i I Arizona, , ' about 13 miles downstream from the Utah-Arizona State line ~nd 15 miles upstream from Lee Ferry-the division point between the I lower and upper basins. It is a concrete, curved, gravity-type structure rising 700 feet above bedrock. The reservoir, with a I I ~otal capacity of 27 million acre-feet, provide~final regulation I , ~or deliveries to the lower basin under the ColOrado River compact. bhe powerplant located near th~ toe of the dam, has a total installed ~apacity of 900,000 kilO\~atts. PARTICIPATING PROJECTS The Central Utah project (initial phase)' ,is' located in the rastern Bonneville Basin in Central Utah and in the Uinta Basin, part rf the Colorado River Basin in northeastern U~ah. The plan author- 'zed included construction of the Strawberry aqueduct along the south . slope of the Uinta Mountains for intercepting Uinta Basin streams l5 ,j , ~ .,;ii ~..;,$;