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. |
Changes at Turquoise and Twin
June, 26 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to decrease the release from Turquoise by 10 cfs this morning at 09:00. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 132 cfs, all of it native.
We’re going to INcrease the release from Twin by 200 cfs today in 50 cfs increments at 08:00, 08:30, 12:00 and 12:30. After the gate operations, we’ll be releasing 1040 cfs, 302 cfs from accounts and the rest native. |
Decrease in Turquoise Release
June, 25 2024 | From USBR:
don’t know about y’all but that glitch in the gage got my heartrate up yesterday. It looks like Cheston has it fixed now. We’re going to cut 10 cfs from the Lake Fork release at 08:30. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 145 cfs, all of it native.
Our database is being worked on so I don’t have updated numbers for Twin yet. If I need to make changes to the release there, I’ll send another email out later. |
Increase in Twin Release
June, 25 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to increase the Twin release by 100 cfs- one increase of 50 cfs at 13:30 and another at 14:30. After the second gate operation, we’ll be releasing 841 cfs- 302 cfs of account and the rest native.
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Decrease in Turquoise Release
June, 24 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to decrease the Turquoise release down Lake Fork by 20 cfs to 152 cfs at 08:30. All of the release is native.
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Release Changes at Turquoise and Twin
June, 23 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to cut another 20 cfs at Turquoise. After the gate operation at 8:30, we’ll be releasing 173 cfs, all of it native.
We’re going to INCREASE Twin again this morning in three 75 cfs increases at 7:30, 9:30 and 10:00. After the third gate operation, we’ll be releasing 736 cfs- 180 cfs from accounts and the rest native. |
Changes to Releases
June, 22 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to cut 20 cfs from Turquoise at 09:00 this morning. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 193 cfs, all of it native.
Runoff was slacking off but changed it’s mind yesterday with all the rain. We’re also getting quite a few account release requests from Twin. We’ll increase the release from Twin in two 50 cfs operations at 08:00 and 10: 00. After 10:00, we’ll be releasing 510 cfs- 108 cfs of account and the rest native. |
Decrease in Turquoise Release
June, 21 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to decrease Turquoise by another 20 cfs this morning at 08:30. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 220 cfs, all of which is native.
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Water Order FAP 24-17
June, 20 2024 | Mount Elbert Powerplant
GENERAL There is sufficient room in Turquoise Lake for anticipated imports.
Sugarloaf Dam Thursday, June 20, 2024 at 0830 Hrs. Stop excess releases to the Mt Elbert conduit. Continue normal bypass releases until further notice. |
Decrease in Turquoise and Twin Releases
June, 20 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to decrease the Turquoise release by 20 cfs at 08:30 this morning. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 245 cfs, all of it native.
We’re going to decrease the Twin release by 50 cfs at 08:00 this morning. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 407 cfs, just over 1 cfs of account and the rest native. |
Decrease in Turquoise and Twin Releases
June, 19 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to decrease the Turquoise release by 20 cfs at 10:00 this morning. After the gate op, we’ll be releasing 270 cfs, all of which is native.
We’re going to decrease the release from Twin in two 50 cfs cuts, one at 12:00 and one at 12:30. After the gate operations, we’ll be releasing 450 cfs, almost all of which is native. |
Decrease in Turquoise Release
June, 18 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to decrease the release from Turquoise by 20 cfs this morning at 08:00. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 285 cfs, all of which is native.
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Decreases in Twin and Turquoise Releases
June, 17 2024 | From USBR:We’re going to decrease the Turquoise release down Lake Fork by 10 cfs this morning at 08:00. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 308 cfs, all of which is native.
We’re going to decrease the Twin release by 100 cfs in two 50 cfs cuts at 10:00 and 11:00. After the gate operations, we’ll be releasing 550 cfs, almost all of which is native. |
Decrease in Twin Release
June, 16 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to cut 100 cfs from Twin- 50 cfs at 07:30 and another 50 cfs at 08:00. After the gate operations, we’ll be releasing 655 cfs, almost all of which is native.
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Decrease in Twin and Turquoise Releases
June, 15 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to decrease the TURQUOISE release by 10 cfs at 08:00 this morning. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 319 cfs, all of which is native.
We’re going to decrease the Twin release by 100 cfs in two 50 cfs cuts at 07:30 and 09:30 this morning. After the gate operations, we’ll be releasing 750 cfs, all but 5 cfs of which is native. |
Decreases in Twin and Turquoise Releases
June, 14 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to cut another 10 cfs from the Turquoise release down Lake Fork Creek at 08:00. This will leave us at 335 cfs release after the gate operation, all of which is native.
We’ll cut the Twin release by 100 cfs in two 50 cfs decreases at 07:30 and 09:30. That will be 845 cfs after the gate operations with about 1 cfs of account releases and the rest native. |
Decreases in Turquoise and Twin Releases
June, 13 2024 | From USBR:
We’ll decrease the Turquoise release down Lake Fork by 15 cfs, from 355 cfs to 340 cfs at 08:00 this morning.
We’ll decrease the Twin Lakes release from 1040 to 940 cfs in 50 cfs cuts at 08:30 and 10:00.
All releases are almost entirely native. |
Decrease in Turquoise and Twin release
June, 12 2024 | From USBR:
Runoff slowed down a bit with the cool off this week. I fully expect it to recover but I’m going to cut the releases a little until it does.
We’ll decrease the Turquoise release down Lake Fork by 15 cfs at 08:30 to 370 cfs. This is entirely runoff captured by the lake. I don’t think we’ll need to increase the Lake Fork flows again this summer.
We’ll decrease the Twin release by 50 cfs today at 08:00 to 1075 cfs. |
Water Order FAP 24-16
June, 12 2024 | Mount Elbert Powerplant, Attn: Facility Manager Subject: Project Operations
GENERAL Starting today at 1030 hrs Reclamation will cease FRY-ARK project diversions at both Midway and Noname diversions sites on Hunter Creek. This is for the Twin Lakes Exchange agreement.
We plan to reject 3000 acre-feet of diversions at these sites from, today, 6/12/2024 until approximately 6/27/2024. The Hunter diversion site will still be diverting water at its maximum allowable rate based on the Fry-Ark Operating Principles.
Midway Diversion Wednesday, June 12, 2024 at 1030 Hrs. Stop all water diversion.
Noname Diversion Wednesday, June 12, 2024 at 1030 Hrs. Stop all water diversion. |
Decrease in Turquoise release
June, 11 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to cut another 25 cfs from the Turquoise release down Lake Fork this morning at 08:30 to bring the total release down to 375 cfs. We’ll stay here for a few days to see how the runoff develops again after that short cool down this weekend. Right now the entire release is native.
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Decrease in Turquoise release
June, 10 2024 | From USBR:
At the county’s request, we’re going to bring the flows down Lake Fork out of Turquoise down a little faster that we’ve been doing the past few days. At 08:30 this morning, we’ll decrease the release by 25 cfs from 418 cfs to 393 cfs. We have 75 cfs of project water going through the conduit but everything down Lake Fork is native.
No changes to Twin today. |
Changes in Turquise and Twin Releases
June, 09 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to cut another 10 cfs at Turquoise down Lake Fork at 8:30. That will take us down to about 415 cfs.
We’re going to increase the release from Twin down Lake Creek by 50 cfs at 10:00 and another 50 at 10:30. After those operations, we’ll be releasing 1150 cfs. Almost all of the releases are native. |
Gate changes at Turquoise and Twin
June, 08 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to decrease the release from Turquoise down Lake Fork by 10 cfs at 08:30. This will bring us to 419 cfs from the dam, all native.
We’re going to increase the release from Twin by 225 cfs in three 75 cfs increases at 7:30, 9:30 and 10:30. After 10:30, we’ll be releasing 1050 cfs, almost all native. There may be an additional increase later in the morning from Twin. |
Gate changes at Twin and Turquoise
June, 07 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to decrease the release from Turquoise down Lake Fork by 10 cfs at 08:30. This will bring us to 438 cfs, all native.
We’re going to increase the release from Twin by 300 cfs in four 75 cfs increases at 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 and 11:30. After 11:30, we’ll be releasing 815 cfs, almost all native. This is still below average for a Twin release at this time of year.
I expect we’ll need to make another increase from Twin tomorrow as well as another decrease from Turquoise. |
Water Order FAP24-15
June, 07 2024 | Mount Elbert Powerplant, Attn: Facility Manager Subject: Project Operations
GENERAL Mt. Elbert Conduit is available to backfill the water being released through the wicket gates in Mt Elbert Forebay.
Sugarloaf Dam Friday, June 7, 2024 at 1100 Hrs. Release a total of 75 cfs to the Mt Elbert conduit. |
Increase in Twin Release
June, 06 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to increase the release from Twin today by 50 cfs at 08:00 and another 50 cfs at 09:00 this morning, 6 June. After the gate operations, we’ll be releasing 510 cfs, almost all of which is native. I believe we’ll continue to make gate increases tomorrow and Saturday as well. I’ll send out notifications when I have amounts and times.
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Flow Increase at Twin Lakes
June, 01 2024 | From USBR:
Native inflows to Twin Lakes continue going up so we’re going to increase our native release to Lake Creek by 50 cfs at 0730 hrs and another 50 cfs at 0900 hrs. After the second operation, we’ll be releasing 390 cfs, about 1 cfs of account and the rest native.
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Increase at Twin Lakes
May, 31 2024 | From USBR:
Native flows into Twin Lakes are going up so we’re going to increase our native release to Lake Creek by 50 cfs at 0900 hrs and another 50 cfs at 0930 hrs. After the second operation, we’ll be releasing 290 cfs, about 1 cfs of account and the rest native.
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Decrease in Lake Fork Release
May, 31 2024 | From USBR:
We’re going to decrease the release down Lake Fork from Turquoise a little to make room for local inflows. We’ll cut 15 cfs at 08:00 tomorrow morning, 1 Jun. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 435 cfs with a changing split of native and project reported to the state daily.
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