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Show April - July Colorado River runoff 68 percent of long-time average Flaming Gorge Lake reach ed a record high for the season sea-son on July 28 Of 6,035 feet and a live storage content of 3,540,000 acre-feet. This was only 5 feet from the Lake's maximum high. The level of Flaming Gorge Lake will be held near maximum through the recreation season and then drop about 10 feet prior to spring runoff. The Bureau of Reclamation reported today that the April-July April-July snowmelt runoff from the Colorado River Upper Basin was 5.6 million acre-feet or 68 percent of the long-time average. erage, above Flaming Gorge Dam in northwestern Utah. About 150,000 acre-feet was stored in Fontenelle Dam which has been spilling since June 13. Low runoff was recorded in the southern part of the basin and above average runoff was reported in the northern part. Lake Powell reached a seasonal sea-sonal high on June 27 at elevation ele-vation 3,620 feet above mean sea level and contained 14.2 million acre-feet of live storage. stor-age. This year's high was a-bout a-bout 3 feet lower than last year's record high. The elevation eleva-tion 3,620 feet is 50 feet above "rated head" of the power-plant power-plant and represents 57 per cent capacity of the reservoir. A drop to about elevation 3,601 feet during the winter is seen for Lake Powell. During Dur-ing water year 1972 (October 1, 1971, to September 30, 1972) the runoff should total about 9.4 million acre-feet Of this amount 9-1 million acre-feet will have been releas e d through Glen Canyon Dam to the Lower Basin. Lake- Mead, behind Hoover Dam, is at elevation 1,155 feet above mean sea level or a-bout a-bout four feet higher than a year ago. The reservoir is now 66 feet below the top of the raised spillway gates at Hoover Hoov-er Dam and is scheduled to rise about 3 feet by the end of summer. The reservoir at present contains 17 million acre-feet of available storage Or 62 percent of its capacity. The heavy accumulation of snowfall in Wyoming caused a 1,938,000 ' acre-feet spring runoff, or 167 percent of av- |