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Grand River Dam Authority Floodwater Release Bulletin

Jan 18, 2020

At 5 PM on Saturday, January 18:

Grand Lake elevation was 746.09 feet. Daily target elevation for January 18 is 742 feet.
At the direction of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, five (5) main spillway gates were open at Pensacola Dam, discharging 32,520 cubic feet per second (cfs) of water.
Five (5) units were online at the Pensacola Dam powerhouse, releasing 11,383 cfs of water through generation.
Releases through floodgates and generation totaled 43,903 cfs.
Inflows into Grand Lake totaled 46,142 cfs.

Lake Hudson elevation was 621.50 feet. Normal elevation is 619 feet.
At the direction of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, one (1) gate was open at Robert S. Kerr Dam, discharging 7,258 cubic feet per second (cfs) of water.
Four (4) units were online at the Robert S. Kerr Dam powerhouse, releasing 32,400 cfs of water through generation.
Releases through floodgates and generation totaled 39,658 cfs.
Inflows into Lake Hudson totaled 53,490 cfs.

The Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) has awarded a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting to the Authority for its annual comprehensive financial reports for twenty-one consecutive years. In order to be awarded a Certificate of Achievement, a governmental agency must publish an easily readable and efficiently organized annual comprehensive financial report. This report must satisfy both generally accepted accounting principles and applicable Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) legal requirements. A Certificate of Achievement is valid for a period of one year only.

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