lake up 4 feet in 24 hours....inflow in the low-mid 40,000 a little above what they expected(39,000)
Juan had an update saying that they plan on putting more shotcrete on the upper portion when things dry out...but the window is closing..since they will spill again at 860-865 feet
lake at 851 feet rising a foot every 7-8 hours or so
The inflows should taper over the course of the day if the weather clears. They’ve had something on the order of 2-3 inches of rain over the last 2 days. Once the bulk of that comes downstream to the reservoir, inflows will back off.
Unfortunately, the spillway will still need to be used a couple of times more. Maybe even 3, but you didn’t hear that from me. There is a LOT of snow up in those mountains that will be trickling down over the next couple of months.
I hope that they get a chance to harden the area at the mouth of the surviving spillway into the plunge pool. That step alone would allow them to taper flows down below 40,000 without major erosion.
Based on water content in the near record deep snowpack I think the lake aw will continue near full with inflow until mid to late June. I saw one area where there as over fifty feet of snowfall hat had consolidated to 17 feet of snowpack with seven feet of water content. That isn’t going to thaw on one warm May Day.