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AHRA waterflow Announcements

Date	Announcement	Details
March 17, 2025	Water Order FAP 25-07	Mount Elbert Powerplant GENERAL End winter water operations Twin Lakes Dam Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 00:00 Hrs. Stop storing native flows in Twin Lakes. Continue releasing 15 cfs of project release down Lake Creek. We will need to add the Native inflow on top of this release in the coming days.
January 24, 2025	Water Order FAP 25-06	Mount Elbert Powerplant GENERAL Mt. Elbert conduit is out of service. Sugarloaf Dam Monday, January 27, 2025 @ 0800 Hrs. Decrease the release from Twin Lakes from 150 cfs to 110 cfs. Tuesday, January 28, 2025 @ 0800 Hrs. Decrease the release from Twin Lakes from 110 cfs to 75 cfs. Wednesday, January 29, 2025 @ 0800 Hrs. Decrease the release from Twin Lakes from 75 cfs to 45 cfs. Thursday, January 30, 2025 @ 0800 Hrs. Decrease the release from Twin Lakes from 45 cfs to 15 cfs. Maintain until further notice.
January 10, 2025	Water Order FAP 25-05	Mount Elbert Powerplant GENERAL Mt Elbert Generating Units will both be down for maintenance. Sugarloaf Dam Monday, January 13, 2025 @ 0800 Hrs. Stop releases to the Mt Elbert conduit from Sugarloaf Powerplant. Continue minimum bypass flows. Maintain until further notice.
December 4, 2024	Water Order FAP 25-04	Mount Elbert Powerplant GENERAL The installation of the stoplogs for MTE Unit 2 is complete and the conduit from Sugarloaf Dam to Mt. Elbert Forebay is ready to run water again. The current plan is to run the conduit at full capacity (~375 cfs) until we fill the forebay back up to the minimum pumping elevation of 9630 ft. The fish hatchery will continue to run 15 cfs so the water available for the powerplant will be less. Sugarloaf Dam Wednesday, December 4, 2024 @ 1400 Hrs. Start releases to the Mt Elbert conduit from Sugarloaf Dam, run the conduit at full capacity. Maintain until further notice.
November 25, 2024	Water Order FAP 25-03	Mount Elbert Powerplant GENERAL The conduit from Sugarloaf Dam to Mt. Elbert Forebay will be closed for an outage from 11/26/2024 at 0800 hrs until 12/3/2024 at 1700 hrs. This outage is for installation of stop logs in MTE Unit 2 for repair work. Sugarloaf Dam Tuesday, November 26, 2024 @ 0800 Hrs. Stop releases to the Mt Elbert conduit from Sugarloaf Dam. Maintain until further notice.