AHRA waterflow Announcements

August 17, 2026

Water Order FAP 26-13

Mount Elbert Powerplant, Attn: Facility Manager
Subject: Project Operations


GENERAL
Native inflows are decreasing. ARKWELCO will be maintained close to 250 cfs using project releases from Twin Lakes as necessary.

Twin Lakes Dam
Monday, August 17, 2026 0800 Hrs.
Increase the project release to 60 cfs. The total release will increase by 20 cfs to 67 cfs.
Maintain until further notice.

August 13, 2026

Water Order FAP 26-12

Mount Elbert Powerplant, Attn: Facility Manager
Subject: Project Operations


GENERAL
Native inflows are increasing. ARKWELCO will be maintained close to 250 cfs.

Twin Lakes Dam
Thursday, August 13, 2026 0000 Hrs.
Decrease the project release by 20 cfs. The total release will not change.

Maintain until further notice.

August 6, 2026

Water Order FAP 26-11

Mount Elbert Powerplant, Attn: Facility Manager
Subject: Project Operations


GENERAL
Project releases to support the Arkansas River fishery below Twin Lake Reservoir are ramping up 30 cfs Friday morning. After these flow changes, we will have about 30 cfs project release and the rest native.


Twin Lakes Dam
Friday, August 7, 2026 0800 Hrs.
Increase the reservoir release by 30 cfs. After this change, the flow at the Lake Creek gage below Twin Lakes is expected to increase from 15 cfs to 45 cfs.


Maintain until further notice.

August 1, 2026

Decrease in Twin Release

From USBR: We're going to decrease the Twin release by 48 cfs at 07:30 this morning. After the gate operation, we'll be releasing 15 cfs- less than 1 cfs of account and the rest native. This is a little more than 15% at Wellsville but there won't be anyone in tomorrow to make a gate change and native inflows are dropping fast.

July 31, 2026

Decrease in Twin Release

From USBR: Native inflows to Twin dropped sharply although it looks like they've leveled off now. We're going to decrease the release from Twin by 50 cfs at 08:00 this morning (31 July) . After the gate operation, we'll be releasing 77 cfs- less than 1 cfs from accounts and the rest native.