AHRA waterflow Announcements

July 4, 2025

Water Order FAP 25-16

Mount Elbert Powerplant
Subject: Project Operations


GENERAL
Native flows to Twin Lakes are declining during VFMP.



Twin Lakes Dam
Friday, July 4, 2025 00:00 Hrs.
Convert 30 cfs of the native release from Twin Lakes to project.



Maintain until further notice.

July 2, 2025

Decrease in Twin Release

From USBR: We're going to decrease the Twin release by 25 cfs at 08:00 this morning (2 Jul). After the gate operation, we'll be releasing 210 cfs, less than 1 cfs of account and the rest native. 

July 1, 2025

Increase in Twin Releases

From USBR: It looks like there was a little rain up there yesterday so we're going to increase the Twin native release by 25 cfs at 08:00 this morning (1 Jul). After the gate operation we'll be releasing 250 cfs, about 1 of account and the rest native. 

June 24, 2025

Decrease in Twin Release

From USBR: The native flows into Twin and Turq continue to decline so we're going to decrease the release from Twin today by 25 cfs at 0800 hrs.  After these gate operations, we'll be releasing approximately 225 cfs, about 2 cfs from accounts and the rest native.

June 23, 2025

Decrease in Twin Release

From USBR: We're going to decrease the release from Twin today by 25 cfs at 0800 hrs.  Our Admin account is slightly negative and this cut should help zero it out.  After these gate operations, we'll be releasing approximately 250 cfs, about 2 cfs from accounts and the rest native.