Two radial gates feeding concrete-lined tunnels to a flip bucket and stilling basin
Spillway capacity
34,000 cu ft/s (960 m3/s)
Reservoir
Creates
Blue Mesa Reservoir
Total capacity
940,700 acre-feet (1.1603 km3)
Catchment area
3,470 sq mi (9,000 km2)
Surface area
9,180 acres (3,720 ha)
Power Station
Hydraulic head
332 ft (101 m)
Turbines
2 x 43.2 MW Francis turbines
Installed capacity
86.4 MW
Annual generation
203,411,938 KWh
Blue Mesa Dam is a 390-foot-tall (120 m) zoned earthfill dam on the Gunnison River in Colorado. It creates Blue Mesa Reservoir, and is within Curecanti National Recreation Area just before the river enters the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. The dam is upstream of the Morrow Point Dam. Blue Mesa Dam and reservoir are part of the Bureau of Reclamation's Wayne N. Aspinall Unit of the Colorado River Storage Project, which retains the waters of the Colorado River and its tributaries for agricultural and municipal use in the American Southwest.[1][2] Although the dam does produce hydroelectric power, its primary purpose is water storage.[3] State Highway 92 passes over the top of the dam. Blue Mesa Dam houses two turbine generators and produces an average of 264,329,000 kilowatt-hours each year.[4]
^"Colorado River Storage Project". U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Archived from the original on 2012-03-03. Retrieved 11 May 2011.
^"Blue Mesa Dam". U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Retrieved 11 May 2011.
^"Wayne N. Aspinall Storage Unit". Curecanti National Recreation Area. National Park Service. Retrieved 11 May 2011.
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