For immediate release: 4/04/08

Floodwater release bulletin

At 3:00 PM on Friday, April 4:

Grand Lake elevation was 747.21 feet.
Grand Lake flood control pool was at 20.52 percent capacity.
At the direction of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, five (5) floodgates were open at Pensacola Dam, discharging 12,525 cubic feet per second (cfs) of water.
Six (6) units were online at the Pensacola Dam powerhouse, releasing 14,119 cfs of water through generation.
Releases through floodgates and generation totaled 26,644 cfs.
Inflows into Grand Lake totaled 17,974 cfs.

Lake Hudson elevation was 624.01 feet.
Lake Hudson’s flood control pool was at 24.39 percent capacity.
At the direction of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, two (2) floodgates were open at Robert S. Kerr Dam, discharging 19,685 cfs.
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 41,825 cfs.
Inflows into Lake Hudson totaled 28,808 cfs.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers has no further gate operations planned for the weekend.

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.