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Show C. AUTHORIZED STORAGE UNITS (Information relative to Storage Units and participating projects has been obtained from reports on investigations and activities of the United States Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior) The construction of four Storage Units of the Colorado River Storage Project and eleven participating projects was authorized in Section 1 of Public Law 485. The four authorized Storage Units are at Glen Canyon on the Colorado River in Utah and Arizona, Flaming Gorge on the Green River in Wyoming and Utah, Navajo on the San Juan River in New Mexico and Colorado and Curecanti on the Gunnison River in Colorado. Combined they will provide about 34,570,000 acre-feet of reservoir capacity and about 1,108,000 kilowatts of installed generating capacity. 1. Glen Canyon Storage Unit The Glen Canyon Dam and Reservoir will comprise the key Storage Unit and will be the largest of the initial four, providing about 80% of both the storage and generating capacity. It will rise 573 feet above the river 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 (Lees Ferry is the location of the Geological Survey gaging station and is 1.3 miles upstream from the compact point, Lee Ferry, which divides the Colorado River Drainage into two basins). It will be the second tallest 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. Lake Powell The 186-mile-long reservoir to be created on the Colorado River by the construction of Glen Canyon Dam will be known as Lake Powell, in honor of the noted explorer-geologist, Major John Wesley Powell. Secretary of the Interior Seaton made the announcement of the selection of the name on November 18, 1959. Construction Activities The general strike that caused cessation of all work on Glen Canyon Dam was finally settled on December 20, 1959. The strike had started on July 6, 1959. The basis for settlement was a 50 cents hourly wage boost. The contractor resumed work in January, 1960 and was far 40 |