Woo Hoo!!!!!!!

[NIMROD]

The Corps has pulled the plug already! Maybe it won't take long to get rid of all this @#$% water!

http://www.swl-wc.usace.army.mil/WCD...ata/Nimrod.htm

[constructskeeter]

I wish they would do that up on Blue Mtn also, i'll have to get online and check what the lake level is and if they are releasing it.

[ski trip]

Maybe I'm reading the link you gave us wrong, but it don't look like the lake is falling in the last 36 hours!!!

[NIMROD]

Maybe I'm reading the link you gave us wrong, but it don't look like the lake is falling in the last 36 hours!!!

You looking at lake elevation or tail water level?

[constructskeeter]

I did some looking around on the net last night for lake current levels myself. Seems not all lakes fall under the corp of engineers....course not all lakes are corps lakes either. I got on a website, vicksburg water control and located the narrows dam info, or lake Greeson levels but they told me it was like 546 and flood stage is 548. I couldn't seem to find that all important normal pool # to know how high it was???? As for Nimrod and Blue Mtn I couldn't see where either were falling myself on the corps site. Both showed to be 10' or more high so if you figure a fall rate of 2' per day which is sucking the bottom out of it, full tube coming out, and no more rain, then add on the days it will take to stabilize it may be a week and half before it gets right at least! By then this warm snap will be long gone I'd imagine and colder weather would return. I don't understand why they leave these lakes so high after rains for so long? After a couple days I expect to see the gates open and start pulling her down some??

[NIMROD]

Nimrod is falling slow, still running in at a good speed. Will take about 10 days on my estimate to get it down maybe more. If it nears normal fish will bite on a fall just not as good. You just have to find them. Believe me I catch fish every year with falling water.

[NIMROD]

lake level then tail water
28JAN2012 1000 353.63 312.02
28JAN2012 1100 353.63 312.03
28JAN2012 1200 353.63 312.03
28JAN2012 1300 353.63 312.04
28JAN2012 1400 353.63 312.04
28JAN2012 1500 353.62 312.02
28JAN2012 1600 353.62 312.04
28JAN2012 1700 353.61 312.03
28JAN2012 1800 353.60 312.02
28JAN2012 1900 353.60 312.03
28JAN2012 2000 353.59 312.02
28JAN2012 2100 353.58 312.04
28JAN2012 2200 353.58 312.03
28JAN2012 2300 353.57 312.02
28JAN2012 2400 353.56 312.01
29JAN2012 0100 353.55 312.03
29JAN2012 0200 353.54 312.03
29JAN2012 0300 353.53 312.03
29JAN2012 0400 353.53 312.04
29JAN2012 0500 353.52 312.02
29JAN2012 0600 353.51 312.02
29JAN2012 0700 353.50 312.04
29JAN2012 0800 353.48 312.04
29JAN2012 0900 353.48 312.58
29JAN2012 1000 353.45 312.60
Slow fall but should increase release at same time run in slowing.

[xring]

I did some looking around on the net last night for lake current levels myself. Seems not all lakes fall under the corp of engineers....course not all lakes are corps lakes either. I got on a website, vicksburg water control and located the narrows dam info, or lake Greeson levels but they told me it was like 546 and flood stage is 548. I couldn't seem to find that all important normal pool # to know how high it was???? As for Nimrod and Blue Mtn I couldn't see where either were falling myself on the corps site. Both showed to be 10' or more high so if you figure a fall rate of 2' per day which is sucking the bottom out of it, full tube coming out, and no more rain, then add on the days it will take to stabilize it may be a week and half before it gets right at least! By then this warm snap will be long gone I'd imagine and colder weather would return. I don't understand why they leave these lakes so high after rains for so long? After a couple days I expect to see the gates open and start pulling her down some??

They have little choice, if the Arkansas is up,,and it is, if they release too much, it can't get into the arkansas, so it floods all the low land between the dam and the arkansas..

[constructskeeter]

Well true I always knew that but it seems certain lakes take priority over others when it comes to release???? You'd think it went by lake size but I don't know how they do it. They could take the highest of all the lakes and pick a certain amount of them to start releasing water 1st?? One of the things I find amusing though is in the Spring when we get loads of rain and those lakes the normally wouldn't take priority get so high they worry about the dams and then they suck the bottom outa those normally non-priority lakes and I get to fish sooner than later on them. There's a lake over in SE OK that they keep saying the dam is in the red, needs repair. They've worked on that thing the last 2 years and still can't fix it so they eternally keep it low, dangerously low to boaters and screw fishing up all year long. Mother nature puts them in their place though when spring rains hit and no matter how much they pull on it....lake stays up where it needs to be! I'm to the opinion of either fix it or fill it back up. It's almost like a game over there on that lake and everyone's tight lipped about what's going to happen. They had it on draw down during last Summer's drought and nearly shut down the local papermill just to keep the local town in supply of water, pitiful. Just like White oak lake though they are killing it by keeping it low and white oak is due to be drained now because of a faulty dam/overflow. Not sure how that thing could mess up since it never has but a certain amount of pressure on it. Now that lake they are draining the lower lake. You would think they would drain the upper one since it's the one that spills into the lower one. I wonder how that's going to workout when spring rains force the upper one back into the lower one??? If it gets up high enough it's going to go over the highway and on into the lower one. The one they are draining is the lake I liked the best and even though they are due to restock it, that sucker won't be any good for a long time now if they drain it.

[cache22]

This link will give you an up-to-date graph of the water level

Rivergages.com - Station Information ForFourche LaFave River at Nimrod Dam -TW