For immediate release: 4/02/08

Floodwater release bulletin

At 1 PM on Wednesday, April 2:
Grand Lake elevation was 747.52 feet.
Grand Lake flood control pool was at 23.14 percent capacity.
At the direction of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, eleven (11) floodgates were open at Pensacola Dam, discharging 29,260 cubic feet per second (cfs) of water.
Six (6) units were online at the Pensacola Dam powerhouse, releasing 13,958 cfs of water through generation.
Releases through floodgates and generation totaled 43,218 cfs.
Inflows into Grand Lake totaled 44,924 cfs.
Lake Hudson elevation was 623.7 feet.
Lake Hudson’s flood control pool was at 22.44 percent capacity.
At the direction of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, two (2) floodgates were open at Robert S. Kerr Dam, discharging 29,384 cfs.
Two (2) units were online at Robert S. Kerr Dam powerhouse, releasing 14,580 cfs of water through generation.
Releases through floodgates and generation totaled 30,831 cfs.
Inflows into Lake Hudson totaled 43,964 cfs.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers was predicting a crest of 747.70 feet for Grand Lake sometime today (Wednesday, April 2). The Corps was also predicting a crest for Lake Hudson of 624.10 feet, around midnight (12 AM on Thursday, April 3).
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.