White River Minimum Flows

[Greasy B]

A month ago I ran across something about another bureaucratic hurdle being overcome with regard to minimum flow implementation. Does anyone know what’s going on?

[Ham]

I'm not at all convinced that this will happen in my lifetime. I'll be shocked if this actually gets going in the next 10 years and mildly surprised if it happens in less than 20 years.

[Greasy B]

As an angler I concider myself an optimist, but its hard to be optimistic about thIs. We've quite a few years of good water lately and some much improved fishing because of it, I don't count on it lasting. I'll never forget the horror of swimming in near bath water at Wildcat access back in the 90's.

[Phil Lilley]

Talked to a fly shop owner last week and he said 18 months.

[OKFlyFisher44]

If they would run a minimum flow of 2000-3000 cfs on that river, it would be epic. It's saw awesome at those flows, be it floating or wading. I mean, as far as floating, it's just fine when it gets up around the 15k-18k cfs mark as well but if they would let it flow at 2000-3000cfs as the "low water mark"....yeah, totally awesome. Just my opinion though.

[Greasy B]

800 cfs is the volumn I recall, way way better than current min which is essentially what leaks through the generators and the dam, about 30-50 cfs. My understanding that a portion of the storage is being allocated, in drought conditions if the allocated water is gone the min flow goes back to the current status quo. If or when min flow happens it will change the river and fishery in was we can only imagine.