4-30-19 Table Rock Comprehensive last Several Days

[Quillback]

6 hours ago, dtrs5kprs said:

Shades of 2017

Up she goes!  I was happy with it around 915, oh well...

[LD Fisher]

Yup, but it seems to me that the COE has done a better job the last couple of years managing the lake levels. They have increased the release before heavy rains recently, like the last few days verses waiting until after the rain comes down.  Makes me wonder if they have new management the last year or so or are at least paying more attention and using common sense!!

[Quillback]

It seems when you get these really big rain dumps I don't know that there's much the Corps can do to keep the level down, whether it's at 910 or 915 to begin with I don't know that it matters much.  

[LD Fisher]

Agree, but, it seems to me that they've been more proactive the last year or so.........probably only means the difference between 923 and 925, but every ft helps when you have a shed that floods at 922!! 😃

[vernon]

1 hour ago, LD Fisher said:

Yup, but it seems to me that the COE has done a better job the last couple of years managing the lake levels. They have increased the release before heavy rains recently, like the last few days verses waiting until after the rain comes down.  Makes me wonder if they have new management the last year or so or are at least paying more attention and using common sense!!

Nope. The COE reacts only to water on the ground, never in anticipation thereof. 

And that’s by congressional mandate and not subject to any individual discretion. 

Sometimes it just works out better than others. 

If the COE were to draw down water levels based on forecasts or expectations and those rains were to never materialize, property and business owners could be left high and dry. 

Consequently, the COE’s charge is to manage flood control after the fact.

Not exactly an easy or enviable task to be sure but it “is what it is” as they say. 

[LD Fisher]

Hmmm...... I stand corrected, just seems like the releases are better tuned to the rain and maintaining the level closer to 915 than in the past.

[vernon]

9 minutes ago, LD Fisher said:

Hmmm...... I stand corrected, just seems like the releases are better tuned to the rain and maintaining the level closer to 915 than in the past.

Unfortunately, it’s probably a little more like the blind squirrel finding another acorn!

Most of the folks at the COE are among the smartest and most well intentioned people you could ever hope to meet but are so hamstrung by congressional meddling and politics that they really don’t have a fighting chance.

And, as is usually the case, the local residents are the ones who suffer the consequences. 

[Devan S.]

9 minutes ago, vernon said:

Unfortunately, it’s probably a little more like the blind squirrel finding another acorn!

Most of the folks at the COE are among the smartest and most well intentioned people you could ever hope to meet but are so hamstrung by congressional meddling and politics that they really don’t have a fighting chance.

And, as is usually the case, the local residents are the ones who suffer the consequences. 

The other problem is at 915 removing volume in anticipation shows a huge difference on the overall lake level opposed to removing the same volume at 925' as the lake spreads out. To remove enough volume to consistently compensate for these large scale events means lake levels could be below 900' or below. You have one drain in anticipation and miss and you could see even larger lake level swings then we do now.