For immediate release: 4/13/08

Floodwater release bulletin

At 1 PM on Friday, April 13:
Grand Lake elevation was 753.01 feet.
Grand Lake flood control pool was at 72.27 percent capacity.
At the direction of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, eight (8) floodgates were open at Pensacola Dam, discharging 49,656 cubic feet per second (cfs) of water.
Six (6) units were online at the Pensacola Dam powerhouse, releasing 13,916 cfs of water through generation.
Releases through floodgates and generation totaled 63,572 cfs.
Inflows into Grand Lake totaled 48,799 cfs.

Lake Hudson elevation was 633.68 feet.
Lake Hudson’s flood control pool was at 80.20 percent capacity.
At the direction of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, three (3) floodgates were open at Robert S. Kerr Dam, discharging 48,532 cfs of water.
Three (3) units were online at Robert S. Kerr Dam powerhouse releasing 21,330 cfs of water through generation.
Releases through floodgates and generation totaled 69,862 cfs.
Inflows into Lake Hudson totaled 67,085 cfs.

The Grand River watershed consists of approximately 12,000 square miles of runoff in parts of Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Of that total, over half—7,000 square miles—is uncontrolled runoff, meaning there is no reservoir to control it above the Pensacola Dam. However, the remaining 5,000 square miles of runoff passes through the John Redmond Dam, located near Burlington, Kansas, prior to reaching the Grand River system in Oklahoma.