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Show D. Authorized Storage Units (Information relative to Storage Units and participating projects has been obtained from reports on investigations and activities of the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior) Of major importance to the Upper Colorado River Basin States is the fact that the construction of four Storage Units of the Colorado River Storage Project and the eleven participating projects was authorized in Section 1 of Public Law 485. The four authorized Storage Units are Glen Canyon, Flaming Gorge, Navajo and Cure-canti. Combined they will provide about 35,210,000 acre-feet of reservoir capacity, and about 1,137,000 kilowatts of installed generating capacity. 1. Glen Canyon Unit The Glen Canyon Dam and Reservoir will comprise the key Storage Unit and will be the largest of the initial four. It will provide about 80% of both the storage and generating capacity and will be roughly comparable in size to Hoover Dam and Lake Mead. The concrete gravity-arch dam located in northern Arizona on the Colorado River, 12.4 miles downstream from the Utah-Arizona state line, and 15.3 miles upstream from Lees Ferry will extend 580 feet above the river. It will be a little lower than Hoover Dam and will be the second highest dam in the United States. The reservoir will have a capacity of 28 million acre-feet and will extend 186 miles upstream on the Colorado River, and 71 miles up the San Juan River. The power house, which will be located at the toe of the dam, will have eight generating units with a total installed capacity of 900,000 kilowatts. Construction Activities Temporary construction headquarters for the Glen Canyon Dam and Reservoir have been established at Kanah, Utah, 70 miles west of the dam site. The State of Utah has constructed a dirt access road between the site and Kanab. Telephone lines have been installed by the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company. Twenty-five miles of access road are under construction to the dam site from Bitter Springs, Arizona. This road will be built to the standards of a primary highway with Arizona paying 10% of the cost. -37- |