Flood Gates May Be Off

[Phil Lilley]

I just noticed that the water in front of our place has calmed - no foam - and the level has dropped.

Check the chart this am and noticed that they've dropped their generation to 120 mw which is about 1.25 turbines although they are running all 4 units. Lake level is 708.0 which is still pretty high but I look for that to drop out some.

Table Rock's level is 917.6. I'd think we may see slow water and may be no generation for periods here in the next week.

I'd go as far to say I'd bet they MAY not run water tomorrow morning... but I'm not a betting man.

[Snow Fly]

Phil:

Is top power pool for Table Rock still 915 or has it been changed to 920, keep hearing both numbers used for the last 6/7 months...........Thanks

[Phil Lilley]

Summer pool is 915.

Winter pool is 917.

[kcomben]

So once the level hits 917, they shut down generation????

[Brian K. Shaffer]

phew... thats good news

but didnt it change to 918 ? (perhaps that was the proposed level) ?

Brian

[Brian K. Shaffer]

OK.. so are they going to turn back on the gates or not ????

From this most recent amount of rain.

If the lake gets over 920... maybe.

Brian

[Spinnaker]

Since we can only speculate and we are not betting, I agree that the corps will keep running substantial amounts of water until everything settles down. Beaver is collecting a substantial amount of water as well. But Bull Shoals is the big winner/looser in all of this. The folks on BS must be more than a little upset about the lake level there. I'll have to check the BS forum on fishing reports there. I am coming down to TR Sunday through Friday next week and can only hope I will catch some bass. Sunny days are predicted so that might provide some water relief but negative affect on the bass.