For immediate release: 3/19/08

Floodwater release bulletin

At 10 AM on Friday, March 21:

Grand Lake elevation was 751.85 feet.
Grand Lake flood control pool was at 65.3 percent capacity.
At the direction of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, eleven (11) floodgates were open at Pensacola Dam, discharging 58,410 cubic feet per second (cfs) of water.
Six (6) units were online at the Pensacola Dam powerhouse, releasing 14,026 cfs of water through generation.
Releases through floodgates and generation totaled 72,436 cfs.
Inflows into Grand Lake totaled 63,318 cfs.

Lake Hudson elevation was 630.95 feet.
Lake Hudson’s flood control pool was at 64.57 percent capacity.
At the direction of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, three (3) floodgates were open at Robert S. Kerr Dam, discharging 60,297 cfs.
Two (2) units were online at Robert S. Kerr Dam powerhouse, releasing 15,390 cfs of water through generation.
Releases through floodgates and generation totaled 75,687 cfs.
Inflows into Lake Hudson totaled 77,552 cfs.

As of 10 AM on Friday, March 21, the United States Army Corps of Engineers was predicting the Grand Lake crest would occur at 751.9 feet today (Friday, March 21). The prediction for Lake Hudson was 631.7 feet around noon on Saturday, March 22.

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.