Lake Level

[Guest]

Why is the COE pulling the lake below pool level right now? It doesn't make any sense. I thought 1121 was pool in the spring time. It's 1119 & they're pulling water 24/7. 

Maintenance maybe? 

[bferg]

I won't pretend to know why... but if you look at this historical chart http://beaver.uslakes.info/Level/  you can see how much higher the water was at the start of this year vs. historical.  You can also see a pretty consistent pattern of a lot of water coming in in April/May...  my guess:  they need to make a little room or else they could have a mess on their hands.  

 

 

 

[bfishn]

1 hour ago, bferg said:

...  my guess:  they need to make a little room or else they could have a mess on their hands.  

 

 

 

...That plus the Mississippi is just 4' shy of flood stage at Memphis and projected to be there at least another week.

[sfiser]

They are just prepping, they need the lakes a little lower than normal just in case we get a big rain event.  With the flooding issues on the Mississippi, the white river lakes will have to hold back water if we do get a big rain so they are making sure we have storage capacity if needed

 

[Guest]

It’s good they’re moving water out but I don’t recall it ever happening in the past. They Usually do it after the flood. 

Today they stopped moving water, so the lakes backing up slowly. 

 

[Amery]

They’ve only had one unit for a couple years now.