Flood Gates, June 16

[Phil Lilley]

16 June 2015 Update:

We will be opening our spillway gates at Table Rock this afternoon (approximately 2:00 PM). Our total release will be approximately 14.4k CFS (8 gates open @ 1' and 2 generators max power). Table Rock Lake's surface pool elevation is approximately 917.4 and rising. As long as Table Rock Lake's elevation is between 917 and 920 this operation will continue.

We are using spillway gates to evacuate flood storage because 2 generators are out of service due to storm related damages.

Table Lake Dam's current spillway/generator release is (8 gates @ 1' for a spillway release of 8.1k CFS and two generators max power releasing 6.4k CFS). Combined with hydropower, the total release will be approximately 14.5 CFS.

FYI - Beaver Lake is only 1' from the top of their flood pool and will likely start spilling into Table Rock Lake later today and/or tomorrow depending on the rain they receive there.

It is very likely that we will see 20.0k releases from Table Rock Dam later this week. I would ask each of you to monitor the lake levels and conditions at Beaver, Table Rock and Bull Shoals lakes to be fully aware of the Corps operations on this part of the White River System.

Jim Sandberg
Operations Project Manager
Table Rock Lake

[Jerry Rapp]

if the rain forecast is correct for the next few days............. it could get very interesting.