Decrease in Twin Release
June, 08 2023 | From USBR:
Things have started picking back up again but we’re still negative on our admin (I didn’t cut fast enough when things slowed down) so we’re going to cut 50 cfs at 08:00 and again at 08:30. After the gate ops, we’ll be releasing 420 cfs, less than 1 cfs of account and the rest native.
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Decrease in Twin Release
June, 06 2023 | From USBR:
Native inflows are picking up again but not as high as they were last week. We’re going to cut another 100 cfs from Twin in two 50 cfs ops at 07:00 and 07:30. After the gate ops, we’ll be releasing 590 cfs, all but less than 1 cfs of which is native.
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Decrease in Twin Release
June, 05 2023 | From USBR:
We’re going to cut another 150 cfs from Twin’s release today in two 75 cfs gate changes at 8:30 and 10:00. After the gate ops, we’ll be releasing 625 cfs, all but less than 1 cfs of native.
We had a little fresh snow on top of the old, dirty snow. That’s reduced melt quite a bit. It’ll rebound once it’s sunny again. |
Decrease in Twin Release
June, 04 2023 | From USBR:
We’re going to cut native flows from Twin by 200 cfs this morning in 50 cfs increments at 8:00, 8:30, 9:00 and 9:30. After the gate operations, we’ll be releasing 800 cfs, less than one of account and the rest native.
Just as an FYI, there’s still snow available in the upper elevations. It just cooled down this weekend. |
Increase in Twin Release
June, 02 2023 | From USBR:
We’re going to increase the native release from Twin by 200 cfs in 50 cfs changes at 8:00, 8:30, 10:00 and 10:30. After the gate operations, we’ll be releasing a total of 1,000 cfs, less than 1 cfs of account and the rest native. There won’t be any gate changes tomorrow. We’ll see where things stand on Sunday.
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Increase in Twin Release
June, 01 2023 | From USBR: We had several exchanges of native flows into the upper reservoirs end in the past few days. We’re going to return those flows to the river. There will be 4 increases from Twin Lakes at 75 cfs each at 08:00, 08:30, 13:00 and 13:30. After the last gate operation, we’ll be releasing 800 cfs from Twin Lakes- less than 1 cfs of account and the rest native.
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Increase in Twin Release
May, 30 2023 | From USBR: We’re going to increase the release from Twin by 150 cfs today in two 75 cfs gate operations, one at 10:30 and one at 11:00. After the gate operations, we’ll be releasing 425 cfs, less than 1 of account and the rest native.
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Increase in Twin Release
May, 29 2023 | From USBR:
We’re going to increase the native release from Twin by 75 cfs at 08:00 this morning, 29 May. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 350 cfs- less than 1 cfs from accounts and the rest native.
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Increase in Twin release
May, 28 2023 | From USBR: We had an exchange stop yesterday. Combined with the increase in runoff, we’re going to increase the native Twin release by 150 cfs in 2 gate changes of 75 cfs each at 07:30 and 08:00 this morning, 28 May. After the gate operations, we’ll be releasing 200 cfs- less than 1 cfs of account and the rest native
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Increase in Twin Release
May, 26 2023 | From USBR: There’s a river exchange into Twin that stops tonight and a little excess native into Twin on top of that. We’re going to increase the native release from Twin by 75 cfs at 08:00 this morning, 26 May. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 125 cfs, less than 1 cfs of accounts and the rest native.
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Decrease in Twin release
May, 19 2023 | From USBR:
The inflows are holding up to declining slightly with this latest cool down but the river exchanges have increased quite a bit. We’re going to decrease the flow from Twin by 50 cfs at 08:00 this morning, 19 May. After the gate op, we’ll be releasing 50 cfs, about 1 cfs from accounts and the rest native.
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Water Order FAP 23-14
May, 17 2023 | Mount Elbert Powerplant,
GENERAL Native flows are increasing.
Twin Lakes Dam Wednesday, May 17, 2023 00:00 Hrs. Convert 50 cfs of project release to native.
Maintain this flow until further notice. |
Decrease in Twin Release
May, 16 2023 | From USBR:
A couple of entities are going to start storing 100 cfs of native inflows to Twin and Turquoise today so we’re going to decrease the native release by 100 cfs at 10:30 hrs 16 May 23. After the gate change we’ll be releasing 100 cfs- 50 cfs of project, 18 cfs of account and the rest native.
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Water Order FAP 23-13
May, 15 2023 | Mount Elbert Powerplant
GENERAL Native flows are decreasing.
Twin Lakes Dam Monday, May 15, 2023 00:00 Hrs. Convert 50 cfs of native release to project.
Maintain this flow until further notice. |
Decrease in Twin Release
May, 15 2023 | From USBR:
We’re going to decrease the flow from Twin Lakes by 50 cfs at noon today, 15 May 23. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 50 cfs of project, less than 1 cfs of account and the rest native.
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Increase in Twin release
May, 07 2023 | From USBR:
We’re going to increase the release from Twin by 75 cfs at 08:00 this morning, 7 May. After the gate op we’ll be releasing 250 cfs, almost all of which is native.
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Increase in Twin release
May, 05 2023 | From USBR:
We’re going to increase the native release from Twin Lakes by 75 cfs at 13:00 today, 5 May 23. After the gate operation, we’ll be releasing 175 cfs, almost all of which is native.
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Water Order FAP 23-12
May, 04 2023 | Mount Elbert Powerplant
GENERAL Native flows are increasing.
Twin Lakes Dam Thursday, May 4, 2023 00:00 Hrs. Convert the 40 cfs of project release to native.
Maintain this flow until further notice. |
Water Order FAP 23-11
April, 23 2023 | Mount Elbert Powerplant
GENERAL Twin Lakes project account is full.
Twin Lakes Dam Sunday, April 23, 2023 09:00 Hrs. Begin a project release of 40 cfs in addition to the current native release.
Maintain this flow until further notice. |
Increase in Twin Release
April, 21 2023 | From USBR:
We’ve finally gotten a bit of inflow to Turquoise and Twin so we’re going increase the release from Twin down Lake Creek from 15 cfs to 55 cfs at 10:30. At this point the entire release is native.
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Water Order FAP 23-09
April, 17 2023 | Mount Elbert Powerplant
GENERAL Native flows are increasing.
Twin Lakes Dam Monday, April 17, 2023 at 00:00 Hrs. Replace the 15 cfs project release with native.
Maintain these flows until further notice. |
Water Order FAP 23-10 (amended)
April, 17 2023 | Mount Elbert Powerplant
GENERAL Turquoise and Twin Lakes are balanced to accept imports.
Sugarloaf Dam Friday, April 21, 2023 at 09:30 Hrs. Decrease the release from Sugarloaf to Twin Lakes to the bypass and fish hatchery flow.
Maintain these flows until further notice. |
Water Order FAP 23-8
April, 06 2023 | Mount Elbert Powerplant
GENERAL Inflows to Ruedi Reservoir from the Fryingpan River will reach levels that place the Fryingpan Arkansas Project in priority.
West Slope Collection System When Appropriate: Regulate diversions to meet the minimum flow requirements as measured at the Thomasville Gauge on the Fryingpan River. Begin diverting any additional water available through Boustead Tunnel.
Fryingpan Minimum Flows at Thomasville Gage Date • Min Flow Oct. 1 - Mar. 31 • 30 cfs Apr. 1 - Apr. 30 • 100 cfs May 1 - May 31 • 150 cfs Jun. 1 - Jun. 30 • 200 cfs Jul. 1 - Jul. 31 • 100 cfs Aug. 1 - Aug 31 • 75 cfs Sep 1 - Sep 30 • 65 cfs |
Water Order FAP 23-07
March, 31 2023 | GENERAL There is sufficient space in the upper reservoirs for anticipated spring imports.
Twin Lakes Dam Monday, April 3, 2023 08:00 Hrs. Decrease the project release by 30 cfs to 45 cfs.
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 08:00 Hrs. Decrease the project release by 30 cfs to 15 cfs.
Maintain this flow until further notice. |
Water Order FAP 23-06
March, 13 2023 | Mount Elbert Powerplant
GENERAL End winter water operations
Sugarloaf Dam Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 00:00 Hrs. Convert the 3 cfs project release to a native release.
Twin Lakes Dam Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 00:00 Hrs. Stop storing native flows in Twin Lakes. Continue the 75 cfs project release. |
Water Order FAP 23-05
February, 03 2023 | Mount Elbert Powerplant
GENERAL There is maintenance on the Sugarloaf Powerplant.
Sugarloaf Dam Friday, February 3, 2023 at 13:00 Hrs. Increase the release from the sleeve valves to Mt Elbert conduit to 250 cfs. The hydropower plant will run 100 cfs. There is a total of 350 cfs or project release from Turquoise to the Mt. Elbert conduit.
Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 10:00 Hrs. Stop the flow to the hydropower plant. The total release of project water from Turquoise to the Mt. Elbert conduit will be 250 cfs.
Maintain this flow until further notice. |
Water Order FAP 23-04
January, 19 2023 | Mount Elbert Powerplant
GENERAL WAPA will be performing testing and maintenance.
Sugarloaf Dam Monday, January 23, 2023 at 08:00 Hrs. Increase the project release from the sleeve valves to Mt Elbert conduit to 250 cfs.
Maintain this flow until further notice.
Twin Lakes Dam Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 00:00 Hrs. Convert the 60 cfs native release to project. The total project release will be 75 cfs.
Maintain this flow until further notice. |
Water Order FAP 23-03 amended
January, 06 2023 | Mount Elbert Powerplant
GENERAL Native inflows to Turquoise will be released down Lake Creek.
Sugarloaf Dam Friday, January 6, 2023 at 09:00 Hrs. Increase the release from the sleeve valves to Mt Elbert conduit to 60 cfs.
Maintain this flow until further notice. |
Water Order FAP 23-02
November, 16 2022 | Mount Elbert Powerplant
GENERAL Project flows from Turquoise and Twin Lakes will be reduced to minimum.
Sugarloaf Dam Wednesday, November 16, 2022 at 14:00 Hrs. Decrease the project release to 3 cfs.
Twin Lakes Dam Wednesday, November 16, 2022 at 14:00 Hrs. Decrease the project release to 15 cfs.
Maintain these flows until further notice. |
Water Order FAP 23-01
November, 14 2022 | Mount Elbert Powerplant,
GENERAL We will begin the winter water program operations on November 15, 2022.
Sugarloaf Dam Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 00:00 Hrs.
Convert the release down Lake Fork Creek to project water. Begin storing 3 cfs of native inflow for Colorado Springs.
Twin Lakes Dam Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 00:00 Hrs. Convert the native release from Twin Lakes to project.
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 00:00 Hrs. Store all native inflows to Twin Lakes for Twin Lakes Canal Company.
Maintain these flows until further notice. |
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