Bull Shoals Dam Opened Its 17 Emergency Floodgates

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Bull Shoals Dam opens spillways

Bull Shoals Dam opened its 17 emergency floodgates this afternoon, according to the Army Corps of Engineers.

Tracy Fancher, Corps project manager, said in addition to running all eight generators, the Corps opened the floodgates 4-5 inches at 12:30 p.m. today. Total water release was expected to be about 27,000 cubic feet per second. The Corps was to maintain that release rate for several days. The lake level at Bull Shoals was 693.62 feet at 9 a.m. Top flood pool is 695 feet..

Floodgates remain open at Norfork Dam, which is releasing approximately 64,000 cubic feet per second. The lake level there is 579.52, down from a new record level of nearly 582 feet. Top flood pool at Norfork is 580 feet.

Both dams feed into the White River.