How Low Will She Go

[Quillback]

A lot of electricity being used in this cold snap which looks to go through next Thursday.

[Stump bumper]

A lot of electricity being used in this cold snap which looks to go through next Thursday.

I have an electric heat pump with a gas back up furnance for heaitng and it has always been that I fear the electric bill in the summer and gas in the winter. But they are generating more elecrticty in the winter than they did in the summer? I guess there are a lot more people on electric only than I realized.

I am wondering how much of this is due to mininum flow for the trout waters out of Table Rock and Bull Shoals.

[Quillback]

Ironically there was a blurb in today's Benton Co. paper about Beaver levels, the corps spokesman says that any moisture provided by this storm will not have an effect on lake levels because of the need to generate electricity. He did not say anything about minimum flow. I have a heat pump myself and my bills are jumping.

[jeb]

There were several pictures in the book I just read on Monte Ne from back in 77 when the lake was the lowest it had been since the flooded it. They did not list the lake level in the article, but it was very low in the Monte Ne area. The entire amphitheater was out of the water.

[Stump bumper]

There were several pictures in the book I just read on Monte Ne from back in 77 when the lake was the lowest it had been since the flooded it. They did not list the lake level in the article, but it was very low in the Monte Ne area. The entire amphitheater was out of the water.

Looks like it would have to be 1093 to get down to the spring and most of the amp out of the water.

amp & lake levels

[jeb]

So still more than 15' to go. I hope we don't get there!

[Stump bumper]

So still more than 15' to go. I hope we don't get there!

Last spring we were up to 1130 and today it is 1109 so that is a drop of 21ft, so a drop of 15ft is not out of a possibilty.

[Stump bumper]

20 inches of snow and a 6inch rise in water level, maybe with the melt off we can get an entire foot. Then we will only need about 10 feet of snow to get back to 1120.

[jeb]

I don't know where they measured the 22" for Rogers, but we live very close to the lake and measured a lot of our deeper spots around the house. We got 14-15". I think they were measuring snow drifts of something. Still, a big time snowfall, no question. Hope most of the meltoff gets down to the lake.