creek flow

mudhen · Senior Member

creek flow

Rossflyguy · Senior Member

It's to draw the lake down a little so that the glory hole doesn't turn Winters into a public winning pool.

Fornacino · Senior Member

I think it would help as long as the water is not released from the very bottom of the dam and lake mud/silt flows along with it. But I'm completely ignorant about the mechanics of the dam and how water is released from it.

lightfoot · Senior Member

Here is the build info for the dam. I'm sure the elevations of the penstocks is in there somewhere. I don't believe it is anywhere near the bottom though I could be wrong. The article is a pretty good read just the same. When full the lake holds 1.6 mil af but the original plan was a larger dam to hold 2.2 mil af.

Third paragraph of page 10....designed to discharge up to 160k cfs hmmm change that to 50k? page 36

Look at page 45 and read description on the proceeding page to see how the discharge at the bottom works.

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