For immediate release: 4/24/08

Floodwater release bulletin

At 12:30 PM on Thursday, April 24:
Grand Lake elevation was 749.87 feet.
Grand Lake flood control pool was at 45.60 percent capacity.
At the direction of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, five (5) floodgates were open at Pensacola Dam, discharging 20,110 cubic feet per second (cfs) of water.
Six (6) units were online at the Pensacola Dam powerhouse, releasing 14,084 cfs of water through generation.
Releases through floodgates and generation totaled 34,194 cfs.
Inflows into Grand Lake totaled 44,377 cfs.

Lake Hudson elevation was 628.53 feet.
Lake Hudson’s flood control pool was at 49.24 percent capacity.
At the direction of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, one (1) floodgate was open at Robert S. Kerr Dam, discharging 15,237 cfs of water.
Three (3) units were online at Robert S. Kerr Dam powerhouse releasing 22,140 cfs of water through generation.
Releases through floodgates and generation totaled 37,377 cfs.
Inflows into Lake Hudson totaled 49,670 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.