8k total, both gates, is the figure I’ve seen, twice. For brevity’s sake, I’ll give you the extra 8k, and raise you another 8k to boot.
With 2016 inflows of 132k, outflows are just a drop in the bucket.
The gates are limited in capacity. 8k total actually surprises me, earlier research indicated more like 4k total, both gates. Of course the ends of the dams are uncontrolled above certain levels.
They did not actually harness this flow. They built a pair of finite capacity buffers, planned and did not fund a bypass outflow channel, and at least part of the original buffer capacity has been obviated by developments right down to the upper reservoir’s “edge”.
I was looking at sat views last night - It just stuns me that so much development was allowed in those buffer capacity areas you mention.
BTW,I want to thank you for the in depth info.! I’m not a CE — only had a couple related classes, many years ago — but I can certainly appreciate what goes into it.
http://abc13.com/reservoirs-rising-even-after-release-of-floodwater/2348619/
I was reading it to be 8000ft from each dam, but it certainly could be written more clearly.
And the water is still rising.