they are palnning to drop the outflow from the main spillway to 80,000 cfs this afternoon to try to dredge the river out and get the power plant back up
Getting the plant on line again would be great. Obviously, they can move some water with it, but it also will produce the free byproduct of electricity for the portion of water that does flow through the turbines.
Update thread here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3525597/posts?page=1#1
Expecting 10” of rain, warm storm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3525597/posts?page=20#20
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3525597/posts?page=49#49
H/t Rdl6989, mad as he$$, KC burke
In the b&w pic in the link below, note the water intake :
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3525597/posts?page=43#43
H/t keat