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<br />cr. <br />r-- <br />~ <br />- <br /> <br />c: <br /> <br />/Jo.uI.bz e d'f <br /> <br />12 <br /> <br />Comparison with last year of reservoir content and reserve <br />capacity for flood control, at April 1st of both years follows: <br /> <br />Operating <br />Year <br /> <br />Acre-Feet <br />in Reservoir <br /> <br />Flood Control <br />Reserve - Acre-Feet <br /> <br />1951 <br /> <br />11,621,000 <br /> <br />16,806, 000 <br /> <br />1950 <br /> <br />10,741,000 <br /> <br />17,686,000 <br /> <br />Stream flow forecasts made during the spring of 1951 indicated <br />that the 1951 inflow (1951-1952 operating year) to Lake Mead would <br />again be subnormal; however, the previously adopted schedules <br />for power generation at Hoover Power Plant were followed through- <br />out the 1950-1951 operating year. Generation during the first two <br />months of the 1951-1952 contract year had been reduced slightly to <br />that corresponding to delivery of the firm energy obligations only. <br />The maximum usable storage content reached during the 1951 run- <br />off season was 19,763,000 acre-feet on August 12, 1951. The lake <br />elevation at that time was 1, 168,97 feet, which was 8.57 feet lower <br />than the maximum of the previous year. At the late date of writing <br />this report, however, stream flow forecasts indicate excellent con- <br />ditions for a very heavy run-off in the spring of 1952 and reservoir <br />evacuations for power have already begun. <br /> <br />As on some of the larger multipurpose projects of the Bureau <br />of Reclamation- -as well as other Government agencies - -we have <br />our problem child, namely, Boulder City, the eldest of the family. <br />Throughout its three evolutionary development phases, first as a <br />construction camp, second as a smaller operating headquarters, <br />and third as a growing town controlled only by natural economic <br />limitations but seriously complicated by Government proprietorship, <br />there have been many administrative problems. The last, and most <br />troublesome phase began to take shape about 1941-1942, when the <br />power allottees began to sense the fact that the town of Boulder City <br />was expanding rapidly in the wartime economy, and that its operat- <br />ing deficits were perhaps somewhat more than could be justified <br />for a town held to a size only sufficiently large to serve as the proj- <br />ect operating headquarters, <br />