“Engineers had been pumping water out of the lake at 100,000 cfs”
Can pumps, even a bunch of them, transfer that much water per second?
You know engineers, they even take credit for gravity.
A single 12” pump will move about 6000 gallons per minute.
They are releasing 7,500,000 gallons per minute
1250 pumps?
Pumps, sheesh. Dumb journalists.
Strictly speaking, they just opened the floodgates and let gravity do the pumping.
“Engineers had been pumping water out of the lake at 100,000 cfs”
Can pumps, even a bunch of them, transfer that much water per second?”””
More fake news & stupid news from our media. I am convinced that combined total aggregate IQ of all the media in the USA is about 122.
They are not pumping water down the spillway——They are opening up the outflow weirs & letting the water remove itself. This is a SPILLWAY——no pumps seem to be visible or involved.
Can you pour water out of a bucket? Can you pour it slowly—or faster—or dump it? Same theory.