Plans For More Water Releases At The Dams

[Danoinark]

http://www.baxterbulletin.com/article/2009...ce=nletter-news

[Zack Hoyt]

Thanks for the link Dan.

[snagged in outlet 3]

Maybe the flood last year caused some light bulbs to go on. Releasing flood gate water in addition to water going through generators to keep O2 up is a great idea. Apparently with no cost to SWPA like the O2 injectors.

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[Dave Cook]

By Dec 1 the surface (or near surface) water temps should be low enough to be healthy for trout and the DO will be high and it should help dilute any oxygen starved water coming thru the generators. It sounds like a good plan.

According to the COE page (http://www.swl-wc.usace.army.mil/WCDS/Repo...rofiles/do1.txt) for Norfork as of Nov 10 the DO is between 0.24 & 0.28 at the generator intake. With the vents open they have been maintaining about 4.5 - 6.5 ppm of DO. If the vents weren't open to draw air in as they generate, all that would be let would be the gar.

I remember how sad the trout we at Taneycomo in Sept after the great flood (great flood part 2) and the trout were just about boiled alive by the spillway water.

[Phil Lilley]

I remember how sad the trout we at Taneycomo in Sept after the great flood (great flood part 2) and the trout were just about boiled alive by the spillway water.

That was Sept 08, right?

This is what they've been doing successfully here at Table Rock since September. It's been great actually... fishing was been very good, water temps have been reasonable, even from the beginning of the floods back in September. The highest temp was 63 I believe and it mixed with the 50 degree water fairly quickly. Our trout did fine - actually fought harder than most normal fall seasons.

They will do fine. As soon as it really gets cold and surface temps drop, they won't have to worry about a thing.