Recent Water Releases

[Bill Butts]

Has anyone heard or have a clue why they're doing what they're doing with the water releases recently?

Looking at the past week's hourly levels on the Tulsa Water District site, the extreme changes in a 24 hour period are pretty odd on some days.

Tenkiller is only one foot above power level, so there doesn't seem to be any obvious reason to dump water at the rates they have been.

It is not very cold so it wouldn't appear to be power demand either.

Is there anything related to low oxyden (DO)that is still a concern?

Thought that ended when the lake turned over a while back.

Also curious if any Stripers are being seen or caught in the trout water of the upper section between the dam and MarVal.

Good fishin to you guys!

[JCWolfe]

Who knows what the deal is with the releases. It's like we are being punished for wanting water and now it's hard to get in any fishing. I thought we were going to get 75 cfs of water during non generation times. Going to try and get in a few hours tomorrow, hopefully they follow the schedule so we can get those few hours.