Reclamation: GP Area Offices

(Above) Buffalo Bill Dam, WY, with the visitor center at the crest of the dam.

Wyoming Area Office

P.O. Box 1630 Mills, WY 82644
Phone(307) 261-5671
Fax (307) 261-5683

Area Manager:
John Lawson

Reclamation has been involved with the conservation and development of Wyoming's water resources for more than 80 years. The agency's Wyoming Area Office (WYAO) administers several multipurpose projects which provide an important economic base to the region by supplying water to 43 irrigation entities which collectively serve more than 580,000 acres of land, and 8 municipal and industrial contractors, as well as providing hydroelectric power, flood control, fish and wildlife enhancement and recreation.

The Wyoming Area Office in Mills, Wyoming, manages the Boysen, Glendo, Hanover-Bluff, Kortes, Owl Creek, and Riverton units of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, the Shoshone Project in the Bighorn River Basin, and the North Platte and Kendrick Projects in the North Platte River Basin. Features of the North Platte Project (also managed by the Wyoming Area Office extend into Nebraska.)

WYAO facilities include 20 reservoirs and 19 dams with a collective storage capacity of more than 4.5 million acre-feet, and 12 powerplants with a combined installed capacity of almost 250 megawatts. The WYAO utilizes a supervisory control system for operation of the Federal dams and powerplants on the North Platte, Wind, Bighorn, and Shoshone Rivers in Wyoming, and also provides supervisory control for Yellowtail and Canyon Ferry Powerplants in Montana.