Show Water Flow Increase For Boaters Cruise Water releases Flaming Gorge will be increased to aid boaters cn the Green River portion of the Friendship Cruise May 28 and it was announced today by Bureau of Reclamation Regional Director David L. ABOUT to cubic feet per second will be released continuously from the dam over a three-day period about a week before the estimated that the increased flows take about one week to travel the miles from Flaming Gorge Dam to Green starting point for the Friendship LAST year some boaters complained that increased flows did not reach Green River at the best possible so a test wili be run this year before the cruise to determine the accuracy of the time Complicating the effect at Green are inflows from three large uncontrolled the the and the which enter the main river between the dam and WEATHER conditions in the upper reaches of this tributary streams during the can drastically affect the amount of water in the Green River at Green The Friendship takes' place on the Memorial Many hundreds of boaters will travel miles down the Green River and 80 miles up the Colorado River to where the cruise MOST common hazard is running aground on sandy but this danger is much lessened by high flows in the believe the volume of water released from Flaming Gorge Dam as a means of extending the multipurpose values of this together with tributary runoff of an above average runoff year for the Green River do much to enhance the Friendship |