Phil Lilley

Good... get ahead of it. I'm sure it will go much higher.

He's changed a setting - newer version of PHP. Takes a little time to work. But he said we'll work through all issues - it'll be ok.

Release Notice: Table Rock Dam will go from 14,000 to 20,000 today at noon. All 10 gates will be open 6 inches.

Thought I'd start another topic for this rain event. For seeing how much rain has fallen, I use https://www.wunderground.com/weather-radar/united-states/mo/springfield/sgf/?region=lit Beaver jumped up from 1129.09 to 1129.26 between 6 and 7 this morning but didn't change at the 8 am reading. It has less than a foot of free board before they start to dump. Question is how much are they going to release? Table Rock has 4 feet of free board. It's at 927.01. Beaver area got a solid 3 inches or more. On east, we got a solid 2 inches plus. I don't think the James will rise too much - don't think TR got hammered like Beaver but TR is going to get a lot of water from Beaver pretty soon. I'm hoping TR can hold what has fallen so they won't have to run too much water through us next week. I don't think it's a matter of flooding for us, it's a matter of whether we will be able to get to our dock, to keep our dock open. This does mean that TR will stay high through the Memorial Weekend which doesn't bode well for resort and marinas. I feel for the State Park guys... and others affected by this high water.

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I'll look into it.

It'd be bad if you were sellling them in a shop... but the fish won't care. That sounds as if I'm kidding, but I'm not. A lot of baits are made to sell, not catch fish. The jig on the right will catch fish, if you put it in the right place, at the right time with the right action

Next time I'm up there and catch one, I'll ask him

Bull Shoals Dam is now releasing over their flood gates. 5400 cfs plus 12400 through turbines. Almost 20,000. Hope they increase soon! Table Rock is releasing 10000. Beaver is still holding.

Just been informed that there's a bladder stuck in the down position on the top of Powersite's spill gate. They think it's a airhose that's come off and they can't inflate the bladder. This keeps the level of Taneycomo at it's "normal" level. The bladders are deflated when they want to move more water through the lake at a lower level. Under normal flows, the bladders are inflated to keep it at the high or normal level. Bull Shoals will have to be dropped quite a bit before this repair happens. When they do the work, they'll have to draw Taney down for the duration of the repair. No telling when this will happen but it won't be for a while (weeks). Until then, Taney will be running a little low and fast. Most people won't even notice the difference.

Flow- I think so. Forecasting 2-2.5 inches of rain this weekend so it'll add more water to the system. Might run more but they'll have to run it through ALL the lakes including Bull Shoals. I guess TR can take some now they have it under 928.

Shut down 7 gates. They're running 3,900 over gates and 7,900 through the turbines. 62.5 over the top and 53 from underneath. Level is 709 feet. Seems really slow compared to what it's been.

I missed it. They're releasing 12,500 cfs at Bull Shoals Dam. That's not much, but it's a start. Started a couple of days ago. BS is at 692.43 feet and rising 3 inches a day. Still running 20,000 cfs at Table Rock Dam. TR is 928.56 feet and dropping about 4 inches a day. Beaver is releasing 3,800 cfs and rising slightly.

I'd say that's pretty close, depending on rainfall.

Thinking about the flood on the North Fork of the White. I heard 200,000 cfs on that river. For the sake of illustration, if there was a dam at the head of the river and the initial influx of water had been delayed and held, the dam could have released less cfs on the river and lessened the impact of the event. Granted, any dam system can't handle a huge rain like that but the flow would have been less than 200,000 cfs.

That's the top of the flood pool. That doesn't mean that's as high as they can go though. 1.5 feet at that lake level is a lot of water but it does mean any widespread, heavy rain they have to spill - at all the lakes. It's an ominous situation for sure. At one time, 300,000 cfs of water was running into Table Rock 2 weeks ago. They released 63,000. That means they held back the difference and saved us from devastation. But there is only so much the dams can do... too much rain is too much rain.

They're saying 693.5 crest on 5/19.

No damage- thanks. I thought it was going to be real bad for a lot of us.

I'm facebook friends and an acquaintance of Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal who co-sponsored the bill. She's been all over the radioactive waste issue for a while - is very passionate about it. Were those parks bought in 2016? I thought they just renamed already purchased land.

Talked to a Corps guy today. He said when the Mississippi can handle the water, they'll start drawing BS and TR down together, then Beaver. He said all the lakes will see high levels till at least mid July.

Here's an interesting number. 300,000 + That's the amount of water (cfs) coming in to Table Rock Lake at one point during the flood 2 weeks ago. That's what was held back, off of Branson, Hollister and all folks below. An estimated 1,000,000 cfs was held back off the Mississippi due to the White River basin system.

At Table Rock? They only cut it by 3,000. They're still releasing 20,000 cfs. They adjusted the flow by reducing turbine release, not flood gate release. They said it was easier to adjust using the turbines verses the gates. I personally hope they don't stop at this flow even though it makes fishing tough for most people here on Taney. They need to keep moving water out of the basin because one big rain could spell disaster for this area.

They reduce flow from 23,000 to 20,000 by adjusting turbine flow. Nothing wrong with any turbine. The turbine down for maintenance is due back on line by next week.

They've kicked off one turbine for some reason. Has to be trouble with it. Same water over gates.