Mount Elbert Powerplant

GENERAL
Twin Lakes project space is close to full and we have made adequate space in Turquoise Reservoir for the remaining imports this year.

Twin Lakes Dam
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 0800 Hrs.
Stop releases to the Mt Elbert conduit from Sugarloaf Dam. Continue releases for fish hatchery through the bypass.

Maintain until further notice.

From USBR: We're going to increase the Twin release by 130 cfs this morning in 2 gate operations- 65 cfs at 08:15 and another 65 cfs at 08:45. After the gate operations, we'll be releasing 670 cfs- about 130 cfs from accounts and the rest native. 

From USBR: We've had a few more changes come in this morning so we're going to add another 50 cfs to the Twin release at 10:30 this morning. After the gate operation, we'll be releasing a total of 720 cfs- 130 cfs of account and the rest native.  

Mount Elbert Powerplant

GENERAL
Twin Lakes project space is close to full.

Twin Lakes Dam
Thursday, June 5, 2025 08:00 Hrs.
Decrease the project release through Sugarloaf Powerplant to 150 cfs. Continue releases
through the bypass.

Maintain until further notice.

From USBR: We're going to increase the release from Twin by 20 cfs at 08:00 this morning. After the gate operation, we'll be releasing 520 cfs- about 1 cfs from accounts and the rest native.