Water Order FAP24-20
July, 26 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to increase the release from Twin by 30 cfs at 07:30 this morning to support VFMP flows at Wellsville. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 200 cfs, less than 1 of account, 80 cfs of project and the rest native. __________
Mount Elbert Powerplant
GENERAL Project releases to support the VFMP will begin.
Twin Lakes Dam Friday. July 26, 2024 at 00:00 Hrs. Convert 30 cfs of the native release to project. The project release will be 80 cfs. Maintain until further notice. |
Decrease in Twin Release
July, 25 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to decrease the release from Twin by 25 cfs at 07:10 this morning. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 175 cfs, about 51 cfs of account and the rest native.
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Water Order FAP24-19
July, 25 2024 | From USBR: We’re going to start moving project water from Twin to Pueblo to support VFMP flows. We’ll be converting 50 cfs of native flows to project as of midnight. We made a 25 cfs gate change at 07:00 this morning which will be the only gate change today.
As of midnight, we’re releasing about 51 cfs of account, 50 cfs of project and the rest native out of Twin.
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Mount Elbert Powerplant
GENERAL Project releases to support the VFMP will begin.
Twin Lakes Dam Thursday. July 25, 2024 at 00:00 Hrs. Convert 50 cfs of the native release to project. The project release will be 50 cfs. Maintain until further notice. |
Clear Creek Reservoir
July, 24 2024 | From Pueblo Water:
The native inflow into Clear Creek Reservoir is dropping off. Since the flow at Wellsville is also declining, rather than doing a gate cut we’ll leave the gates where they are a convert some of the outflow to an account release. Our plan is to leave the CCR gates where they are (85 cfs) until August 15 and continue to adjust the mix of native and account to match hydrologic conditions above CCR. The current split is 20 cfs account and 65 cfs native. Having a steady gate setting at CCR will remove one variable in trying to manage flows at Wellsville from Twin Lakes. I will coordinate with USBR on a plan for releases from Twin Lakes if necessary to keep Wellsville above 700 cfs.
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Decrease in Twin Release
July, 24 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to decrease the Twin release by 50 cfs at 07:30 this morning. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 200 cfs, about 56 of account and the rest native.
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Decrease in Twin Release
July, 23 2024 | From USBR:
I was hoping we’d get a little more rain this week but inflows to Twin are dropping. We’re going to decrease the release by 50 cfs at 08:00 this morning. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 250 cfs, about 57 of account and the rest native.
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Increase in Twin Release
July, 19 2024 | From USBR:
It looks like we had some rain last night so I need to release the native inflows to Twin. We’re going to increase the release down Lake Creek by 50 cfs at 07:00 and another 50 cfs at 08:00. After the gate operations, we’ll be releasing around 306 cfs- less than 1 cfs of account and the rest native.
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Increase in Twin Release
July, 19 2024 | From USBR:
With this increase from Twin Lakes, Pueblo is going to cut the release from Clear Creek by about 120 cfs at 2:00pm today. We will be releasing about 80 cfs – all native.
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Increase in Twin Release
July, 18 2024 | From USBR:
I still stored a little native yesterday so I’m going to increase the release down Lake Creek in two 50 cfs increases at 08:00 and 10:00. After the gate operations, we’ll be releasing 832 cfs- less than 1 cfs of account and the rest native.
Amendment: I did it again- looked at Wellsville to make sure that we were under 15% rate of change and then put it in as the ending release. I apologize. The release from Twin will be 206 cfs, less than 1 cfs of account and the rest native. |
Increase in Twin Release
July, 16 2024 | From USBR:
We’ve got a bit more native coming into Twin so we’re going to increase the release by 40 cfs at 08:00 this morning. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 114 cfs, 10 of it account and the rest native.
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Increase in Twin Release
July, 15 2024 | From USBR:
No changes at Turquoise today.
We’re going to increase the Twin releasee by 40 cfs this morning at 08:00. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 73 cfs- 10 cfs of account and the rest native. |
Decrease in Turquoise Release
July, 14 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to cut 7 cfs from the Lake Fork release at 09:00 this morning. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 24 cfs, all of it native.
It looks like we got a little rain last night and we’re expecting more today. I think Wellsville will hold at 700 cfs without a gate change from Twin. |
Decrease in Turquoise Release
July, 13 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to decrease the release from Turquoise down Lake Fork by 5 cfs at 09:00 this morning. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 31 cfs, all of it native.
There are no changes at Twin Lakes today. |
CCR Release
July, 13 2024 | From Pueblo Water:
We are going to add another 30 cfs to the Clear Creek gates bringing the total to about 210 cfs (100 native + 110 account). This is about as high as we want to go at Clear Creek. If ARKWELCO continues to decline we will start a release from Twin Lakes.
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Decrease in Turquoise Release
July, 12 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to begin decreasing the release from Turquoise down Lake Fork again this morning. There will be a 5 cfs cut at 09:00 on 12 July leaving us at 37 cfs. There will be a second 5 cfs cut at 09:00 on 13 July leaving us at 32 cfs. All the flows down Lake Fork are native.
No gate changes at Twin this morning. |
Decrease in Turquoise Release
July, 12 2024 | From USBR: ARKWELCO has dropped to 700 cfs and I would expect it to continue declining. We are going to increase the release from Clear Creek by 50 cfs this morning and we’ll continue monitoring it through the weekend.
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Decrease in Twin Release
July, 11 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to decrease the Twin release by 80 cfs in two 40 cfs cuts at 07:00 and 07:30. After the gate operations, we’ll be releasing 32 cfs, 10 cfs of account and the rest native.
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Decrease in Twin Release
July, 10 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to decrease the Twin release by 100 cfs today in 50 cfs cuts at 08:00 and 08:30. After the gate operations, we’ll be releasing 117 cfs, 60 cfs of account and the rest native.
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Decrease in Twin Release
July, 09 2024 | We’re going to leave Turquoise alone again today.
Runoff is almost over and, as is usual in most years, our native inflows into Twin are declining. As a result, we’ll be reducing the native release. In addition, project releases from Twin Lakes account holders are ending. We’ll decrease the release from Twin Lakes by 100 cfs in a cut of 50 cfs at 08:00 and a second cut of 50 cfs at 08:30. After the gate operations, we’ll be releasing 222 cfs, 110 cfs of account and the rest native. |
Decrease in Twin Release
July, 08 2024 | From USBR:
Brandon pointed out we’re releasing 426 cfs from Twin, not 1030. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 326 cfs.
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Decrease in Twin Release
July, 07 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to decrease the release from Twin Lakes by 225 cfs in three 75 cfs cuts at 07:30, 08:00 and 08:30. After the gate operations, we’ll be releasing 430 cfs, 167 cfs of account releases and the rest native.
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Decreases in Twin and Turquoise Releases
July, 05 2024 | From USBR:We’re going to do one more 10 cfs decrease at Turquoise down Lake Fork at 08:30. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 32 cfs. We’ll pause at 32 cfs for at least a few days.
We’re going to decrease the flows from Twin by 300 cfs in 75 cfs cuts at 07:30, 08:00, 09:30 and 10:00 at Twin Lakes down Lake Creek. We won’t make a gate change tomorrow but we’ll see where things stand on Sunday. |
No Decrease at Turquoise Today
July, 05 2024 | From USBR:
The state has requested we not decrease the Turquoise release down Lake Fork at this time. We will remain at 42 cfs at least through the weekend.
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Changes in Twin and Turquoise Releases
July, 03 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to decrease the release from Turquoise by 10 cfs at 08:00 this morning. After the gate op we’ll be releasing 54 cfs, all of it native.
We’re going to increase the release from Twin by 50 cfs at 09:30 and another 50 cfs at 10:00. After the gate ops, we’ll be releasing 975 cfs, about 52 cfs from accounts and the rest native. |
Decrease in Turquoise Release
July, 02 2024 | From USBR:
We decreased the Turquoise down Lake Fork release by 10 cfs at 08:15 this morning. After the gate operation, we’re releasing 62 cfs, all of it native.
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Turquoise Release Change
June, 30 2024 | From USBR:
We’ll decrease the release from Turquoise by 10 cfs at 08:00 this morning. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 87 cfs, all of it native.
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Turquoise Release Change
June, 29 2024 | From USBR:
We’ll decrease the release from Turquoise by 10 cfs at 08:00 this morning. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 96 cfs, all of it native.
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Decrease in Turquoise Release
June, 28 2024 | From USBR:
We’ll decrease the release from Turquoise by 10 cfs at 08:00 this morning. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 105 cfs, all of it native.
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Changes to Releases
June, 27 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to continue taking Lake Fork down 10 cfs a day. This morning’s gate operation will be at 09:00. After that, we’ll be releasing 121 cfs, all of it native.
Twin is still storing admin (native inflows that are stored when the dam gates aren’t open enough to let it through) that I need to get out. We’re going to increase the release by 200 cfs in four 50 cfs increases at 08:00, 08:30, 11:00 and 11:30. We’ll end with 1240 cfs released from Twin, of which 302 is account and the rest native. Once the rains move through this weekend, I’ll probably be able to start bringing the Twin releases down. |
Water Order FAP 24-18
June, 27 2024 | Mount Elbert Powerplant
GENERAL Starting Monday at 0900 hrs Reclamation will start FRY-ARK project diversions at both Midway and Noname diversions sites on Hunter Creek.
Midway Diversion Monday, July 01, 2024 at 0900 Hrs. Start water diversion and maintain minimum bypass requirement.
Noname Diversion Monday, July 01, 2024 at 0900 Hrs. Start water diversion and maintain minimum bypass requirement. |
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