What Next?

[Idylwilde]

At what point will the trout start to turn belly up from the warm water and low oxygen levels? It must be geting warmer with pouring all the surface water that has been warmed into the river.

[flytyer57]

FLOOD WARNING

On the screen watching the Weather Channel, the COE is going to raise flows from Bull Shoals to 35,000 cfs at noon, and to around 44,000 cfs at 2 PM. The river is expected to rise 4-5 feet and people are being warned to secure docks and head to higher ground.

[flytyer57]

My question has always been. Is there a posibility that more water is coming into the system than can be let out?

Pete

Think about that for a second Pete. They can open the gates and run the turbines and let all the water out that they want to.

[snagged in outlet 3]

I guess what I'm getting at is, can the water coming into the lake exceed what can be dumped by the dam? Heck, Beaver is dumping 34k CFS into Tablerock without considering what's coming in from the rivers and streams. Tablerock is pumping 53k CFS so that's only drawing off ~20k. The James and Kings alone could add 20k CFS easily.

What is the max cfs the dam can move?

Pete

[MOPanfisher]

TR dam can move way more than the amount it has ever released. Numbers fail my brain right now but thinking somewhere in excess of 500,000 (for some reason 650K CFS is in my mind)CFS with all 10 gates maxed out. Nobody wants to see that happen to Branson. Plus the emergency spillway which even more so nobody wants to see open. So the dam can release lots but the price would be heavy in downstream flooding.

[snagged in outlet 3]

WOW!!

Okay, so they CAN move it but at what cost, I see.

Thanks.

Pete

[flytyer57]

WOW!!

Okay, so they CAN move it but at what cost, I see.

Thanks.

Pete

The cost would be to those who are dumb enough to build below the dams.

[Wayne SW/MO]

Dumb? Why do you think they spent all that money building the dams? I got a flash for you if you think it was to create trout habitat.

[Phil Lilley]

This is "dummy" reporting.

It seems Beaver is starting to drop- finally. But Table Rock continues to inch up every hour.

The one thing right now is the storm approaching. It looks like a bad thunderstorm but it's think and fast moving and shouldn't dump a lot of rain on us, hopefully.

If we can get by one more day, the extended forecast looks dry, at least for 4-6 days. I don't think we'll see our water level drop until this weekend, at the earliest.

Water temps are still in the low 50's and the DO is very high. These events in the spring always are great for our trout. They're getting tons to eat.

BTY- just got back from Boston visiting our son. With the news about Joplin in their news too, several asked me... "why would anyone live in an area where there are storms and tornados!?" Guess it takes all kinds, doesn't it.

[jdmidwest]

Dumb? Why do you think they spent all that money building the dams? I got a flash for you if you think it was to create trout habitat.

Everyone knows they did it to ruin the world class smallmouth stream it once was.

I feel sorry for you all over there, our water is coming down now along the Mississippi. But I just read about record flooding in Montana and I think that comes down the Missouri River eventually.