Show Lake Mead Expects Rated Head June 20 Reclamation expects Lake Mead to reach rated head June 25 20 with all Inflow to Lake Powell being passed at Glen Canyon Dam up up to the maximum possible the Bureau of ot Reclamation expects Lake Mead to be returned to rated head level of at 1123 feet sometime between June 20 and 25 25 We are not able to pin down exactly the variables governing I the rise of ot Lake Mead Regional I Director F F. F M. M Clinton Region 4 Bureau of ot Reclamation pointed point point- ed out Cool weather has prevailed over the Upper Colorado River Basin during May and the first week of June so that Inflows to Lake Powell have been held less than the capacity of ot the bypass I facilities pt at Glen Canyon Dam Dam I Mr Clinton said However with normal weather in the remainder I of ot June inflows to Lake Lak Powell shoud permit maximum releases down river most of ot June he said Considering the probable releases releases releases re- re leases from Lake Mead through the generators at Hoover Dam for downstream consumptive uses as aswell aswell aswell well as the probable releases at atGlen at atGlen atGlen Glen Canyon Dam we feel teel reasonably reasonably reason reason- ably certain that Lake Mead will willbe willbe I be restored to rated head level in the period of June 25 20 Mr Clinton said Lake Powell will peak at about feet on August 1 then fall tall slowly and steadily to a low of I feet teet in April 1966 This will mum power p pool ol level of ot be a 40 foot toot rise above the mini mini- feet which has been maintained since August 1964 Flaming Gorge Lake will continue continue continue con con- to rise rather rapidly to reach feet by about August I 1 I with gradual rise of ot the lake f level through 1966 Fontenelle Reservoir Is 18 still expected expected expected ex ex- to fill and 2nd begin to spill by the end of ot June Navajo Reservoir will reach a peak elevation of ot feet teet by about July 1 before beginning to I decline 1 |