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Show Recreation Activities Recreation use and the development of facilities have progressed rapidly since the storage of water began in Lake Powell. Most of the development has taken place at Wahweap and Lees Ferry in Arizona. Three of the seven sites scheduled for development in Utah - Halls Crossing, Bullfrog, and Hite - now have boat ramps and concession facilities. A new floating marina at Rainbow Bridge offers attractive facilties for boaters. The Wahweap area leads all other areas in the number of visitors with 204,269 recorded by the end of September 1965 as compared to 166,404 at the same time last year. Lees Ferry had 28,845 visitors in 1965 compared to 11,578 in 1964. At Rainbow Bridge there were over 10,000 recorded to September 30 and 4,760 the previous year. About 4 million rainbow trout were planted in Lake Powell in a huge airlift operation which took place during mid-May. The trout were airlifted from national hatcheries to the lake by the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, bringing the total number of trout planted in Lake Powell to about 12.5 million. 2. Flaming Gorge Storage Unit Flaming Gorge Dam, powerplant, and switchyard were completed and transferred to operation and maintenance status on July 1, 1964. Started in 1957, the dam was finished on November 15, 1962. On September 27, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signaled the start of test runs for generator No. 1. On November 11, 1963, all tests were completed. The first Colorado River Storage Project hydroelectric power went on the line from generator No. 1. Generator No. 3, the third and last of the Flaming Gorge generating units, was placed in operation in February 1964. Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson dedicated the completed Flaming Gorge Dam on August 17, 1964. Flaming Gorge Dam is located on the Green River in northeastern Utah, about 40 road miles north of Vernal, Utah, and 32 river miles downstream from the Utah-Wyoming state line. The dam is a concrete thin-arch structure rising 502 feet above bedrock. The reservoir has a capacity of 3,789,000 acre-feet and, when full, will extend upstream 91 miles, nearly to the town of Green River, Wyoming. The powerplant has an installed generating capacity of 108,000 kilowatts. The Flaming Gorge Storage unit has two principal functions - development of water resources in the Upper Basin by providing long-term storage regulation of the flow of the Green River and generation of electrical energy. Revenues from the sale 73 |