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, , COLORADO BASIN November, 1997 I. Basinwide Conditions Assessment: The SWSI value of 3.8 indicates that for October the COLORADO RIVER BASIN Surface Water&A p l y Index Mowry asin water supplies were well above normal. Flow at the S gaging station Colorado River near Dotsero averaged 1,698 cfs ,_ as compared to the long term average of 1,293 cfs. Storage in 3- I ' 1' - Green Mountain, Ruedi, and Williams Fork reservoirs totaled - - ..,--.....-7.. 121% of normal as of the end of October. - -- Irrigation diversions have ceased for the season. ^ Rivers are flowing higher than they were last year at this time. i ° A _- )(i "\111. r,../1c : ,--, '=--�� ill_,_ ti..J ' L The major reservoirs remain at or near capacity. Administrative/Management Concerns 0 -- The basin's dam safety personnel inspected 421 feet of 24 inch outlet pipe at Wildcat Reservoir, located near -� JAN98 JAN89 JAN90 JAN91 JAN92 JAN93 JAN94 JAN95 JAN96 JAN97 Snowmass, using a remote camera on a sled pushed up the hONTWYEAR outlet with plastic pipe. All 430 feet of available plastic push pipe was used to view the outlet, setting a new record for the inspectors. In other dam news, the 30 inch correlated metal pipe outlet of McMahon Reservoir, located north of Kremmling, COLORADO RIVER NR. DOTSERO was successfully lined with 1/2 inch of pvc coating(traidmark 130 FIAST NOON OF THE WATER YEAR Ultraliner) inside the pipe. This is the first time in the United 120 / State that a pipe of this diameter was lined using this product. 100 90 Public Use Impacts I Y 70 e0 r!l ///f, many ski areas. Diversions for this use may compete with minimum stream §I °° flows as the ski season progresses. //// v S° V 40 / /- 30 20 10 Q fJ 4 A OCTOBER 1997 OCT.AVG. ('61-'96) NION C1963) LOW(1993) Representative Reservoirs Colorado River Bev,n 140 10 1220 110 e 100 j b n ,x-/X la 6Q 7 v, • SO / Zi i 40 30 Orton Mounta1n li.edl WI I llama Fork ® Avg 10/91 Content■ ® 10/91/97 Contents 7