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Show Capacity (ac-ft.) Project Item Reservoir Stream Total Active State Authorized: Colorado River 1 Glen Canyon58 Colorado River 28,000,000 21,500,000 Ariz. Storage Project 2 Flaming Gorge6 Green River 3,940,000 2,950,000 Utah Units :2 3 Navajo5 San Juan River 1,450,000 778,000 N. Mex 4 Curecanti5 Gunnison River 940,000 740,000 Colo. Colorado River Storage Project Participating Projects:2 Lyman5 5 Bridger Willow Creek 43,000 42,000T Wyo. Emery County" 6 Joes Valley Cottonwood Creek 57,000 55,0008 Utah Central Utah6 7 Starvation Strawberry River 160,000 150,000 ii 8 Upper Stillwater Rock Creek 31,500 29,000 ii 9 Strawberry (enlargement) Strawberry River 1,087,000 1,087,000 it 10 Stanaker Ashley Creek 37,000 34,000 ii Florida5 11 Lemon Florida River 23,300 20,000" Colo. Paonia5 12 Spring Creek Muddy River 18,000 11,000 n Silt5 13 Rifle Gap Rifle Creek 10,000 9.00010 ii Smith Fork5 14 Crawford Clear Fork 14,000 13,000u ii Collbran Project3 15 Vega Plateau Creek 33,500 32,700 ii City of Denver ) 16 Dillon Blue River 52,000 43,000 it Projects4 j 17 Williams Fork Williams Fork 87,000 87,000 ii TOTAL AUTHORIZED RESERVOIRS 35,983,300 27,580,700 TOTAL EXISTING AND AUTHORIZED RESERVOIRS 37,630,274 29,084,051 Note: The authorized reservoir capacities are subject to change when final surveys are available. Source of Data: TJ.S.G.S. Water Supply Paper 1360-A. (Listing reservoirs of 5,000 acre-feet or more.) 2Colorado River Storage Project and Participating Projects authorized by Public Law 485, 84th Congress, 2nd Session. 3Collbran Project authorized by Public Law 445, 82nd Congress, 2nd Session. Capacity of Vega Reservoir given in U.S.B.R. Definite Plan Report for Collbran Project, dated September 1952, page 27. 4City of Denver Reservoirs under construction. See Water Works Engineering Magazine, May 1956, pages 451 and 452. "Hearings before the Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate. 84th Congress, 1st Session on S.500, page 48 (Glen Canyon), page 88 (Curecanti), page 95 (Navajo), page 62 (Lyman Project), page 77 (Emery County Project), page 81 (Central Utah Project), page 72 (Florida Project), page 68 (Paonia Project), page 64 (Silt Project), and page 68 (Smith Fork Project.) 5aU.S.B.R. Glen Canyon dam and Power Plant Specifications No. DC-4825, Vol. 1, Drawing No. 5. "House Document No. 364, 83rd Congress, 2nd Session, U.S.B.R. Report on Colorado River Storage Project, 1950, page 116. 'U.S.B.R. "Project Planning Report for Lyman Project" dated October 1950, page 50. 8U.S.B.R. "Project Planning Report for Emery County Project" dated February 1951, page 3. 9U.S.B.R. "Project Planning Report for Florida Project" dated January 1951, page 2. "U.S.B.R. "Project Planning Report for Silt Project" dated January 1951, page 1. "U.S.B.R. "Project Planning Report for Smith Fork Project" dated February 1951, page 11. |