UPPER COLORADO RIVER COMMISSION 355 South Fourth East Street Salt Lake City 11, Utah October 30, 1962 MEMORANDUM TO

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UPPER COLORADO RIVER COMMISSION 355 South Fourth East Street Salt Lake City 11, Utah

October 30, 1962

MEMORANDUM

TO: Upper Colorado River Commissioners and Advisers

FROM: Ival V. Goslin, Executive Director

SUBJECT: Construction and Advance Planning Program of the Bureau of Reclamation for the Colorado River Storage Project and

participating projects, et al 1 for fiscal year 1963. Note: this tabulation represents the distribution of all

funds available including newly appropriated money 1 carry-overs, savings and slippage, etc.

According to an announcement from the office of the Secretary of the Interior the details of the Bureau of Reclamation • s program of construction and advance planning for Fiscal Year 1963 include the items on the following pages of particular interest to the Upper Colorado River Basin.

The Bureau of Reclamation• s Advance Planning program in the Upper Basin States includes two major projects--the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project in Colorado estimated to cost $170 million and the San Juan-Chama Project in New Mexico estimated to cost $8 6 million.

The three "new start" construction reclamation projects for which Congress appropriated funds for fiscall963 are:

1. Glen Elder Unit, Missouri River Basin Project, Kansas

2. Oake Unit, James Section, Missouri River Basin Project, South Dakota

3. Morrow Point facilities I Curecanti Unit, CRSP, Colorado STORAGE UNITS:

Glen Canyon Storage Unit $4514021191

--to continue placement of concrete in Glen Canyon Dam and to continue construction of the powerplant and switch

yard; to continue progress payments on the turbines 1

generators I governors I and other materials and equipment furnished .by the government. Contracts will be awarded

for additional dam 1 powerplant and switchyard equipment.

Curecanti Storage Unit 1017471922

--to continue construction work on the Blue Mesa Dam and

Reservoir, powerplant 1 and switchyard. Work will also continue on highway relocations in the Blue Mesa Reservoir area. Additional right-of-way will be purchased. Con struction contracts will be awarded for Morrow Point Dam

and Reservoir I powerplant and switchyard and for clearing the Morrow Point Reservoir area. · Permanent utilities will ·· be built at the Morrow Point Field Station and relocatable houses inthe temporary camp will be acquir~d and erected.

Flaming <:;orge Storage Unit 1319451501

--to continue construction of the Flaming Gorge Dam I powerplant and switchyard. Construction of a highway

from Greendale. Junction to the right abutment ..of the dam by the Utah Highway Commission is to be completed. The relocation of \tVyoming State Highway 530 at the Blacks Fork and Henrys Fork arms of the reservoir is to be com pleted. !

Navajo Storage Unit 110491606

--for completing all construction work on the Navajo Unit including the Navajo Dam and relocating the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad; remodeling the laboratory

building into a shop, garage I and warehouse and construc ting a caretaker's residence at the Navajo Damsite. The Roza Bridge and the Archuleta county road will also be com pleted.

Total Program for GRSP Storage Units $71,1451220 -2- TRANSMISSION LINES:

Region 3 $ 7,855,871

--for continuation of work on the erection of 124 miles of 345-kv transmission line from Flagstaff to Pinnacle Peak, Arizona, includ ing towers, foundation, and stringing; for start of construction on the 22-mile Pinnacle Peak-Mesa 230-kv line and for the start of construction on the Pinnacle Peak Substation, including the purchase of associated equipment.

Region 4 25,084,854

--in Arizona, construction will continue on Glen Canyon-Flagstaff transmission line, and the Glen Canyon-Shiprock transmission line; and construction of the microwave communication system in Arizona will begin. In Colorado, the Vernal-Craig; the Curecanti Gunnison and the Morrow Point-Curecanti transmission lines will all be completed. Construction on the Curecanti-Hayden, the Craig-Hayden-Oak Creek-Kremmling-Green Mountain, the Shiprock Cortez-Curecanti and the Morrow Point-Curecanti transmission lines will continue. Construction will begin on the Hayden Substation, Green Mountain Switchyard Additions, Curecanti Substation and on the Colorado portion of the microwave communication system. Con tracts will also be awarded for construction of the Montrose Service Center and for a line crew headquarters at Hayden. In New Mexico, construction will continue on the Glen Canyon Shiprock transmission line. Building on the Shiprock substation will begin and contracts will be awarded for the substation equipment for the Albuquerque substation, Arizona Public Service Plant switchyard and construction contracts will be awarded for the Shiprock-Arizona Public Service plant transmission line and the Shiprock line crew headquarters. Construction of microwave communication facilities in New Mexico started. In Utah, construction of the Utah portion of the Flaming Gorge-Oak Creek transmission line and the Vernal line crew headquarters will be completed, construction on the Vernal sub station will continue and construction of the microwave communication system in Utah will start.

Region 7 280,000

--to provide for preparation of design data and award of the contract for the Hayden-Cheyenne transmission line and for preparation of design data for Cheyenne Substation No. 2

Total for CRSP Transmission Division $33,220,725 -3- PARTICIPATING PROJECTS:

Florida $ 4,107,996

--construction will continue during the year of Lemon Dam, Florida Farmers Diversion Dam, and on the enlargement of Florida Farmers Ditch and Florida Canal and construction of laterals will be initiated. Rehabilitation of existing ditches will be done by irrigation companies with funds advanced by the Government.

Paonia 31,924

--for repair of intake structure of Paonia Dam. This will complete the presently programmed work on this project.

Smith Fork 392,409

--for completion of the major construction work on this project, except for drains, which will be constructed at at later date as the need arises.

Hammond 336,216

--construction of the Main Canal is scheduled for sub stantial completion. Permanent operating facilities con sisting of an office, garage, warehouse, and shop building is to be completed, as is the caretaker's residence.

Emery County 2,238,035

--to complete the acquisition of rights-of-way and award contract for construction of Joes Valley Dam and Reservoir and to complete highway relocations. Field data will be collected for the Huntington North Dam and Reservoir. Right of-way will be acquired and field data compiled for the Cotton wood Creek-Huntington Canal. A temporary camp will be con structed.

Central Utah (Vernal Unit) 256,728

--to complete minor work items, priming the Steinaker Service Canal and provide for extraordinary maintenance encountered on Utah Highway No. 44. -4- •

PARTICIPATING PROJECTS (Continued) :

Eden* 493,312

--to continue water conservation methods and underground water investigations and further investigate the possibilities of pumping return flow water from the Big Sandy River. To apply water-borne chemical sealant to the features of the carriage works and lateral system.

Seedskadee

--to continue construction of Fontenelle Dam; initiation of reservoir clearing, and relocation of U. S. Highway 189; collection of field data on canals, laterals, and drains; initiation of construction of Fontenelle powerplant and switchyard and award contracts for the turbines and other government furnished electrical equipment. Construction of the final stage of the temporary construction camp will be completed.

Total for Participating Projects Construction

* This project was not authorized by P. L. 485, 84th Congress, but has repayment provisions under that Act.

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ADVANCE PlANNING

Region 4

--for right-of-way appraisals and preparation of construc tion plans and specifications on the Silt Project in

preparation for start\ of construction. in F. Y. 1964; for revisions to the economic justification report on Crystal Dam on the Curecanti Unit; for continuation of studies on the Central Utah Project and completion of a definite plan report on the Bonneville Unit and the completion of a definite plan report on the Lyman Project. The program also provides for the continuation of Quality of Water studies in the Upper Colorado River Basin as authorized by law.

Region 5 5501000

--this amount provides for most of the work required for the Definite Plan Report for the San Juan-Chama Partici pating Project.

Total Advance Planning CRSP $ 118811809

OTHER AGENCIES $ 4148 61286

--for construction of recreation and fish and wildlife facilities.

FRYINGPAN-ARKANSAS PROJECT

Advance Planning $ 5001 000

--for foundation drilling and materials exploration at

Sugar Loaf I Twin Lakes, Pueblo and Ruedi Dam and Reservoir sites and for the tunnel under the Continental Divide. There will also be hydrologic studies and re payment contract negotiations underway and aerial topo graphic mapping at Ruedi Dam and Reservoir on the Western Slope .

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ADVANCE PlANNING

Region 4 $ 113311809