Bull Shoals Release

[Devan S.]

4 hours ago, Quillback said:

Yes sir, that's what I think too.  We need a dry rest of the year.

We don't need dry. We need normal. 

According to the national weather service: Springfield is 10"+ ahead of normal.  Joplin is 9" ahead of normal. Harrison is 8"+ ahead of normal. Fayetteville is 7.5"+ ahead of normal. We're not 50% through the year and in most cases we are 25-40% ahead of normal on precipitation.

What we really need is a dry week with normal to above normal temperatures and some wind. Followed by a few light 1/2" rains throughout the week. This is go time for most of agriculture.

[Ham]

4 hours ago, rps said:

That is high, but the last five feet on BS is an enormous amount of water.

 

You aren’t wrong, but I bet BSL comes up another foot overnight. It will come up again with TR releases Beaver’s water. 
We are one more 2 inch rain from them opening flood gates again. 

[rps]

2 minutes ago, Ham said:

You aren’t wrong, but I bet BSL comes up another foot overnight. It will come up again with TR releases Beaver’s water. 
We are one more 2 inch rain from them opening flood gates again. 

Under the current "rules" any wet Spring will be like this.

[mojorig]

I'm guessing there isn't going to be much water release this week from either Bull or Norfork based off the forecast for the Newport gauge.

[terryj1024]

It gets much higher it won't matter what the level is downstream.

[dpitt]

Added newport gauge to our SMS texting app.  text "g whitenewport" to   913-270-0360  to get current cfs and gauge height It uses USGS api feed.   Here's a link for more info... https://keyholelabs.com/convo/cfswater   

 

[JQL]

I’ve been using the USACE Little Rock App On my phone for several years a lot of water level info at your fingertips 

[mojorig]

I realize this is the Bull Shoals Lake page but things are getting interesting over at Norfork Lake. It is predicted to peak at 579 which is one foot from top of flood pool. We have another storm coming through this weekend and predicted to last till Monday.

[snagged in outlet 3]

3 minutes ago, mojorig said:

I realize this is the Bull Shoals Lake page but things are getting interesting over at Norfork Lake. It is predicted to peak at 579 which is one foot from top of flood pool. We have another storm coming through this weekend and predicted to last till Monday.

I'm supplying shaft casing for the US 150 over the Illinois River in Peoria IL and yesterday they shut down work because the river is 2' from record flood.  And it's headed down the Mississippi.

 

[dpitt]

Just added total cfs and spillway release cfs  to the sms text utility.   

text  gen table    to 913-270-0360   here's a link for more info https://keyholelabs.com/convo/cfswater

Hope folks find it useful.