As of Sunday the it was muddy, 12" vis or less. I went up to the lake and the water is much clearer up there. Still has that glacial silt, milky blue-green, coloration but much clearer. It looked like the water that was gushing out down below the dam was stirring up a lot of silt in the creek. There was a big difference between the two.

its says that it was last updated May 14 , 2007

is this true.

I'm curious about the big spikes in the flows at the beginning of each week. It's pretty consistent. I know some people thought that it was because they were cleaning some part of the system and until they were done we could expect that it would continue. That was at least a month ago, they must be done by now.

highly doubt it will spill over into the glory hole, I looked last weekend and its not close at all. I'd have to guess a good 50 feet at least from going over. Way to go Emerger !!!!!!

That's the link that I use. From this site you can look at the reservoir elevation and see how much higher the water has to rise before it spills over (max = 456 feet). As of 27 Jan 2008, the lake was at 424.75 feet, so the water has to rise another 31.25 feet to spill over the Glory Hole. As of 27 Jan 2008, the volume of water behind the dam was estimated to be 1319354 acre-feet. The storage capacity of the dam is 1602000 acre-feet. If you divide the current value by the maximum value, it will give you the percentage of capacity. The value for the 27th is the most current value. As of this date, the lake was at 82.36% of capacity.

Uuuuhhhkay.  Im glad someone likes math and can figure out this stuff for me.  Thanks JT.

Hey I live in Vacaville and there is a puta creek diversion cannel that I drive by everyday. Today I drove by and It was brown I didnt see any green in the water. It is the worst I have seen it this year. That is a ways down stream I know but it has been a pretty good gauge for me. But I havent been to the creek for 2 weeks. That sucks.

I haven't received any email back from the Solano County Water Agency yet, but someone did respond to my email.  They updated the data in the website to Jan 28, 2008.  The results for Lake Berryessa:
water level:  424.75 ft
rim of Glory Hole:  439.96 ft
i.e. lake is 15.21 ft. below the Glory Hole
Lake is 82.5% full

It remains to be seen if they will continue to update this web site weekly.

Its a long concrete tube nearr the Monticello Dam that acts as an overflow protection for the top of the dam. If you have looked inside your toilet tank you eill see the same type of tube (only much smaller). When the lake reaches the top of the GH tube, its starts spilling through and roaring out the base of the dam. That when you can see flows up to 9000 cfs. If you look at the phoyo album you'll see the effect of GH flow on the creek valley.

throwinmetal wrote:

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what is a gloryhole?

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http://www.trophybassonly.com/id56.htm
http://daviswiki.org/Morning_Glory_Spillway
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1997/03/12/MNR3BA2.DTL&hw=SUCKING&sn=005&sc=560

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Man! That is a lot of water. It would be one heck of a ride down that glory hole!

Yeah, they'd probably still be alive as they were tossed out. How much longer they'd stay that way is anyone's guess :)

I know what you were doing up there.

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Two years ago the creek hit flows of 7000 cfs, so I went up and took a few shots, which are posted below. It was quite a sight and made fishing impossible most of that winter. The left picture is the glory hole and the right one is taken from the bridge by the resort looking downstream.

-- Edited by chemdoc at 21:30, 2008-01-30

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Hey, on the left of that picture of putah is one of my favorite holes when the water is lower.