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AHRA waterflow Announcements

July 7, 2025

Water Order FAP 25-19

Mount Elbert Powerplant
Subject: Project Operations


GENERAL
Native flows to Twin Lakes are declining during VFMP.

Twin Lakes Dam
Monday, July 7, 2025, 00:00 Hrs.
Convert 45 cfs of the native release from Twin Lakes to project. Project release will be 100 cfs.

Maintain until further notice.

July 7, 2025

Increase at Twin Lakes

From USBR:  We're going to increase the release from Twin today by 50 cfs at 1000 hrs.  After this gate change, we'll be releasing approximately 256 cfs, about 50 cfs from accounts and the rest native.

July 6, 2025

Water Order FAP 25-18

Mount Elbert Powerplant
Subject: Project Operations


GENERAL
Native flows to Twin Lakes are declining during VFMP.



Twin Lakes Dam
Sunday, July 6, 2025 00:00 Hrs.
Convert 25 cfs of the native release from Twin Lakes to project. Project release will be 55 cfs.



Maintain until further notice.

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.