Pomme De Terre Dam/lake Update

[MOPanfisher]

OK hopefully I will have only one more update to post. Today is the final placement of concrete in the stilling basin. The inspectors are on site doing a preliminary final inspections. We have begun shutting down the outflow from 110 to 50 and down to 25 at end of day, tomorrow we plan to shut down to 0 CFS to allow the contractor to begin removing the bypass system and components. A week from today, April 7th we sould begin releasing water and be up to 3500 CFS by end of day. Roll river Roll.

Current Lake elevation 855.31. Predicted crest (without additional rainfall) by April 7th is 856.16 or 87.75 if we receive a light rainfall. Which amounts to about 45% of our total storage capacity.

[ozarkgunner]

I was planning on puting my canoe in tomarrow. Will the lack of water make this immpossible?

[oneshot]

Will Truman be releasing water once Pomme de Terre starts running heavy or are they going to have to deal with high water again this year?

oneshot

[MOPanfisher]

Gunner, if you put in your canoe, be prepared to do a lot of dragging on the upper part of the river below the dam.

Oneshot. The amount of water we release into Truman will not really affect them.

[MOPanfisher]

Well I have to report that I lied to you yesterday. The contractor didn't get all the forms ready until late in day, so they postponed the last placement until today. They started early and will easily finish today. The outflow has shut off completely and they are already dismantling the bypass system in preparation for a complete removal. Current lake elevation 855.44, outflow 0 CFS. Lake Temp about 47 degrees F.

With the one day slippage I believe it has been decided to modify the release schedule from Thursday April 7th to Friday April 8th and only open it up to 500 CFS and let it run through weekend, and make sure all is OK in the basin on Monday before cranking it up to 3500 CFS. I will do my best to keep current on the posting.

[any and all fishing]

Sounds good, i'm glad they were able to complete the work. Thanks for the reports, you've been very informative.

[MOPanfisher]

As of about 1:15 p.m. yesterday we are releasing 500 CFS through the new concrete lined stilling basin. Quite a crowd of folks came to watch. The lake is already beginning to fall just slightly at 855.91. Hopefully the rain in the forecast will miss us so we can go ahead on Monday and open up to 3500 CFS (Assuming congress does their job and doesn't shut down the government Saturday at 12:01 a.m. I wish to add a humongous "THANK YOU" to all the affected fishermen, home and dock owners, campers etc. who understood the need to draw the lake down, and at the end allow it to rise higher than we would have liked to get the work accomplished. The redbuds are a bloomin, and the dogwoods are getting close so lets go fishin!!!

[smallmouth man]

HAWG GET THE NET!

[MOPanfisher]

Pomme de Terre Dam is now releasing approximately 3500 CFS, the lake is falling and the river is a rollin!!

Below is the lake forecast assuming no additonal inflow (i.e. rainfall) Realistically if we make normal by Memorial Day I will be surprised, it is likely that we will get some runoff rain between now and then which will set the time table back but we shall wait and see what happens.

Days Date Elev Stor Inflow Release %/FC

1 4/11/2011 855.79 396897 250 2000 39.2

2 4/12/2011 855.47 393329 248 3500 38.3

3 4/13/2011 854.88 386750 245 3500 36.7

4 4/14/2011 854.29 380172 243 3500 35.1

5 4/15/2011 853.69 373627 240 3500 33.5

6 4/16/2011 853.08 367111 238 3500 31.9

7 4/17/2011 852.47 360595 235 3500 30.3

8 4/18/2011 851.85 354038 233 3500 28.7

9 4/19/2011 851.21 347484 231 3500 27.1

10 4/20/2011 850.57 340931 228 3500 25.5

11 4/21/2011 849.93 334408 226 3500 23.9

12 4/22/2011 849.26 327843 224 3500 22.2

13 4/23/2011 848.59 321277 222 3500 20.6

14 4/24/2011 847.92 314746 219 3500 19.0

15 4/25/2011 847.22 308188 217 3500 17.4

16 4/26/2011 846.52 301629 215 3500 15.8

17 4/27/2011 845.81 295051 213 3500 14.2

18 4/28/2011 845.08 288495 211 3500 12.6

19 4/29/2011 844.35 281940 209 3500 11.0

20 4/30/2011 843.60 275364 207 2800 9.3

21 5/1/2011 842.99 270128 204 2800 8.1

22 5/2/2011 842.38 264892 202 2800 6.8

23 5/3/2011 841.76 259664 200 2800 5.5

24 5/4/2011 841.12 254422 198 1500 4.2

25 5/5/2011 840.80 251801 196 1500 3.6

26 5/6/2011 840.48 249180 194 1500 2.9

27 5/7/2011 840.15 246477 193 1500 2.2

28 5/8/2011 839.82 243827 191 1000 1.6

29 5/9/2011 839.61 242170 189 1000 1.2

30 5/10/2011 839.40 240513 187 1000 0.8

31 5/11/2011 839.19 238855 185 500 0.4

32 5/12/2011 839.10 238145 183 500 0.2

33 5/13/2011 839.01 237435 181 500 0.0

[any and all fishing]

I'm guessing that will scatter the fish below the lake in the river, i've never fished it with that much releasing...Any tips??