Tenkiller Dam, Gate Changes 4-17-15

[Guest]

Tenkiller Lake: Pool elevation is 635.90 feet on Friday 17Apr15 Time: 1400 hours.

http://www.swt-wc.usace.army.mil/TENK.lakepage.html

Gate Changes:

• Friday, 17 Apr 15 at 3:00 p.m.
  • Pool Elevation = 635.90 feet.
  • New Gate Discharge was 4871 cubic feet per second.
  • New Gate Settings:
    • 2 Conduit Gates open 4.00 FEET
• Friday, 17 Apr 15 at 11:30 a.m.
  • Pool Elevation = 635.93 feet.
  • New Gate Discharge was 3779 cubic feet per second.
  • New Gate Settings:
    • 2 Conduit Gates open 3.10 FEET
• Friday, 17 Apr 15 at 8:30 a.m.
  • Pool Elevation = 635.91 feet.
  • New Gate Discharge was 1957 cubic feet per second.
  • New Gate Settings:
    • 2 Conduit Gates open 1.60 FEET

Illinois River, Gore, OK

http://www.swt-wc.usace.army.mil/webdata/gagedata/GORO2.20150417.html

[Guest]

anybody want to take a stab at why they decided to open the gates?

[JCW355]

632 is their favorite number. Im surprised they havent had them open keeping the lake down the last several days. Watching the numbers since I started fly fishing they like to keep it close to 632

[Guest]

Just when the water started getting into the bushes, they pull the plug. smh

[Ham]

It's dropping a few inches a day.. Sucks

[DaddyO]

As JCW said, 632 is the magic number. They weren't managing to that number, earlier, because they were working on the dam/turbines, etc.. They have their issue fixed and began releasing water. Look for them to go back to normal generation patterns when the lake level gets down to 632.

By the way, the fishing was great below the dam prior to them letting the water out again.