Bureau of Reclamation Federal Water Projects on the Colorado River system

• Big Sandy
• Built 1952
• Capacity: 26,000 acre/feet

• Fontenelle
• Built 1963
• Capacity: 345,360 acre/feet

• Meeks Cabin
• Built 1971
• Capacity: 32,470 acre/feet

• Stateline
• Built 1979
• Capacity: 14,000 acre/feet

• Blue Mesa
• Built 1966
• Capacity: 940,700 acre/feet

• Bonham
• Built 1962
• Capacity: 1,220 acre/feet

• Crawford
• Built 1962
• Capacity: 14,395 acre/feet

• Crystal
• Built 1973
• Capacity: 25,236 acre/feet

• Fruitgrowers
• Built 1939
• Capacity: 4,540 acre/feet

• Granby
• Built 1950
• Capacity: 539,800 acre/feet

• Great Cut Dike
• Built 1984
• Capacity: 381,195 acre/feet

• Green Mountain
• Built 1943
• Capacity: 153,639 acre/feet

• Jackson Gulch
• Built 1950
• Capacity: 10,000 acre/feet

• Kitson
• Built 1911
• Capacity: 184 acre/feet

• Lemon
• Built 1963
• Capacity: 40,146 acre/feet

• Animas-La Plata
• Estimated Completion: 2012
• Capacity: 120,000 acre/feet

• McPhee
• Built 1984
• Capacity: 381,195 acre/feet

• Morrow Point
• Built 1968
• Capacity: 117,190 acre/feet

• Paonia
• Built 1962
• Capacity: 20,950 acre/feet

• Ridgway
• Built 1987
• Capacity: 84,410 acre/feet

• Rifle Gap
• Built 1967
• Capacity: 13,602 acre/feet

• Ruedi
• Built 1968
• Capacity: 102,373 acre/feet

• Shadow Mountain
• Built 1946
• Capacity: 18,400 acre/feet

• Silver Jack
• Built 1971
• Capacity: 13,520 acre/feet

• Taylor Park
• Built 1937
• Capacity: 106,200 acre/feet

• Vallecito
• Built 1941
• Capacity: 129,700 acre/feet

• Vega
• Built 1959
• Capacity: 33,800 acre/feet

• Willow Creek
• Built 1953
• Capacity: 10,600 acre/feet

• Bottle Hollow
• Built 1970
• Capacity: 11,799 acre/feet

• Currant Creek
• Built 1975
• Capacity: 15,700 acre/feet

• Flaming Gorge
• Built 1964, modified 1978 & 1984
• Capacity: 3,788,000 acre/feet

• Huntington North
• Built 1966
• Capacity: 5,420 acre/feet

• Joes Valley
• Built 1966
• Capacity: 62,460 acre/feet

• Midview
• Built 1937
• Capacity: 5,800 acre/feet

• Moon Lake
• Built 1938
• Capacity: 49,500 acre/feet

• Red Fleet
• Built 1980
• Capacity: 26,000 acre/feet

• Scofield
• Built 1946
• Capacity: 73,600 acre/feet

• Soldier Creek
• Built 1974
• Capacity: 1,106,500 acre/feet

• Starvation
• Built 1970
• Capacity: 167,310 acre/feet

• Steinaker
• Built 1962
• Capacity: 38,173 acre/feet

• Upper Stillwater
• Built 1987
• Capacity: 32,000 acre/feet

• Navajo
• Built 1963
• Capacity: 1,708,600 acre/feet

• Bartlett
• Built 1939, modified 1996
• Capacity: 178,186 acre/feet

• Davis
• Built 1953
• Capacity: 1,818,300 acre/feet

• Glen Canyon
• Built 1964
• Capacity: 26,215,000 acre/feet

• Hoover
• Built 1935
• Capacity: 28,254,000 acre/feet

• Horseshoe
• Built 1946, modified 1993
• Capacity: 131,427 acre/feet

• Horse Mesa
• Built 1927
• Capacity: 245,138 acre/feet

• Granite Reef
• Built 1908
• Diversion dam, no reservoir

• Imperial
• Built 1938
• Capacity: 85,000 acre/feet

• Mormon Flat
• Built 1926
• Capacity: 57,852 acre/feet

• New Waddell
• Built 1992
• Capacity: 1,108,600 acre/feet

• Palo Verde
• Built 1957
• Diversion dam, no reservoir

• Parker
• Built 1938
• Capacity: 646,200 acre/feet

• Stewart Mountain
• Built 1936, modified 1992
• Capacity: 69,765 acre/feet

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Built 1911, modified 1996
• Capacity: 1,653,043 acre/feet

• Senator Wash
• Built 1966
• Capacity: 5,770 acre/feet

• Squaw Lake Dike
• Part of Senator Wash

Notes

• Map not to scale
• 1 acre foot = volume of water that will cover 1 acre to a depth of 1 foot = 325,851 gallons = annual water for a household of 4 people

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