Show Flaming Gorge Unit Receives No Errors Errors' Award of Merit At ceremonies held January 7 at the Flaming Gorge Lodge I David L. L Crandall regional director director dir dir- ector region 4 Bureau of Reclamation Reclamation Re Re- presented the Bureaus Bureau's first annual award of Merit to the employees of the Flaming Gorge Field Division Div ision Islon of the Colorado River Storage Storage Stor Stor- age Project I Flaming Gorge Field Division won the award because their employees had absolutely no reportable errors from July 1 1967 to June 30 1968 An error errors Is s considered any action that results in improper operation of electrical power equipment which may may mayor or or may may not result In of oi transmitted transmit transmit- in disruption power ted to customers THE Glen Canyon office had three errors and the Montrose Power Operations office had bad five errors None of the errors resulted in personal injury or property loss and only two errors errors er er- caused brief disruptions of power transmission In addressing the Flaming Gorge group Mr Crandall stated stated stat stat- ed That during the last year the Colorado River Project had produced 36 billion kilowatt kilowatt- hours of power bringing in revenue There were only two minor customer outages out out- ages With people doing the power operations and maintenance main maintenance main main- this performance overall overall over over- all is highly commendable Everyone can take just pride in such results MR Crandall t told ld the Flaming Flaming Flam ing Gorge employees E Each h of of you can rightfully claim direct personal involvement not only in a major hydropower operation operation oper oper- but also in a broad broad based based resource development program of fundamental importance to Americas America's present and future |