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Show PART VI STREAM MANAGEMENT Impoundments A total of 581 reservoirs, having capacities ranging upward from a minimum of about 50 acre-feet, have been constructed by Federal and non-Federal entities to provide storage regulation for the various water uses. This number includes Flaming Gorge Reservoir on the Upper Green River, Navajo Reservoir on the Upper San Juan River, and Lake Powell on the Colorado River that were constructed as features of the Colorado River Storage Project. The number does not include some 22,000 man-made stock ponds that have been constructed to provide drinking water for livestock. Exclusive of fish and wildlife and municipal and industrial reservoirs, the reservoirs have a total active capacity of 29,705,800 acre-feet. Reservoirs constructed as of 1965, Upper Colorado Region Type of Reservoir Number Active Capacity Irrigation Federal Non-Federal Sub to tal Fish and Wildlife Municipal and Industrial Main Stem Regulation Export Reg-ulating and Exchange Total 1/ 2/3 of storage in Green Mountain Reservoir for irrigation; 1/3 of storage for exchange. Acre-feet 18 2/3 1/ 2,023,300 290 751,600 308 2/3 2,774,900 232 - 30 - 2 25,748,900 8 1/3 1/ 1,182,000 581 29,705,800 24 |