At 10:30
AM
(7/6/04) Grand Lake elevation was 747.25.
Currently,
flood control pool is at 19.96 percent capacity.
Currently,
the United States Army Corps of Engineers has directed three (3) gates to
be opened at Pensacola Dam.
Total
inflows into Grand Lake are 24,760 cubic feet per second (cfs).
Current
releases through Pensacola floodgates are 7,575 cfs.
Pensacola
Dam has six (6) units generating, releasing 13,143 cfs.
Total
Pensacola releases through gates and generation is 20,718 cfs.
Lake
Hudson elevation at 10:30 AM
was 623.76.
Currently,
flood control pool is at 23 percent capacity.
There is
one gate open at Robert S. Kerr Dam.
Total
inflows into Lake Hudson are 23,200 cfs.
Current
releases through Kerr floodgates are 5,030 cfs.
Kerr Dam
has three (3) units generating, releasing 22,140 cfs.
Total Kerr
releases through gates and generation is 27,170 cfs.
The Grand
River watershed consists of approximately 12,000 square miles of runoff in
parts of Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Of that total, over half7,000
square milesis uncontrolled runoff, meaning there is no reservoir to
control it above the Pensacola Dam. However, the remaining 5,000 square
miles of runoff passes through the John Redmond Dam, located near
Burlington, Kansas, prior to reaching the Grand River system in Oklahoma.
