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The gates are open at the dam finally!

Monday, 11 May 15 at 2:00 p.m.

• Pool Elevation = 596.20 feet.
• New Gate Discharge was 18194 cubic feet per second.
• New Gate Settings:
  
  • 11 Tainter Gates open 1.50 FEET
  
  

Originally Posted by OK Toon

The gates are open at the dam finally!

Monday, 11 May 15 at 2:00 p.m.

• Pool Elevation = 596.20 feet.
• New Gate Discharge was 18194 cubic feet per second.
• New Gate Settings:
  
  • 11 Tainter Gates open 1.50 FEET

Its about time my father in law ran by our lakehouse at Sandy Bass Bay, I'd have to wade through 5 ft of water just to get to the beginning of my dock walkway, pencils are riding right at the height of the last sleeve holding them, I know they have to be cognizant of downstream but letting it run almost to 100% of the flood pool with a lot more water to come is a bit much...

The problem right now is we still have more water coming into the lake than they are releasing. So the water level is still going up, although slower now but more rain is coming in tomorrow through the end of the week.

PRECIP ELEVATION STORAGE TW-ELEV INFLOW RELEASE AIR-TEMP WIND-DIRW IND-SPEED REL-HUMID SOLAR-RAD VOLTAGE
INCHES FEET ACFT FEET CFS CFS DEG-F DEGREES MPH PERCENT W/M2 VOLTS
GOES GOES GOES GOES COMPRESQ POWERQ GOES GOES GOES GOES GOES GOES
(Cen)
05/12 01:00 0.00 596.99 3498512 494.77 143031 41715 59.88 332.40 0.95 60.74 0.00 13.78
05/12 02:00 0.00 597.05 3506719 494.80 143680 41715 59.34 332.80 0.81 61.66 0.00 13.78
05/12 03:00 0.00 597.11 3514958 494.80 144194 41715 59.02 27.40 0.15 65.08 0.00 13.78
05/12 04:00 0.00 597.18 3524571 494.77 141328 41715 53.62 109.80 1.99 85.15 0.00 13.78
05/12 05:00 0.00 597.24 3532810 494.84 144732 41715 52.52 113.20 2.56 92.97 0.00 13.78
05/12 06:00 0.00 597.29 3539674 494.80 138100 41715 53.40 121.60 2.51 89.92 0.00 13.78
05/12 07:00 0.00 597.36 3549288 494.91 124794 41715 54.84 352.30 0.26 79.12 8.00 13.78
05/12 08:00 0.00 597.40 3554786 494.84 124795 41715 57.47 356.50 3.37 64.65 81.00 13.78
05/12 09:00 0.00 597.43 3558901 494.79 122746 41715 58.35 79.10 1.55 54.76 173.00 13.78
05/12 10:00 0.00 597.49 3567140 494.86 117350 41715 60.87 90.40 1.93 52.08 381.00 13.78
05/12 11:00 0.00 597.53 3572639 495.49 118606 48000 65.16 71.50 2.51 46.88 638.00 13.78
05/12 12:00 0.00 597.58 3579503 495.45 129822 48000 66.04 110.20 2.61 48.41 662.00 13.77

They've opened the gates more.

Tuesday, 12 May 15 at 10:30 a.m.

• Pool Elevation = 597.50 feet.
• New Gate Discharge was 37235 cubic feet per second.
• New Gate Settings:
  
  • 11 Tainter Gates open 3.00 FEET

Most current pool elevation readings are 597.67 feet at 2:00pm.

Have to take a boat to get to my boat here in Longtown.. I have only lived on the lake a couple years and only lived in Oklahoma 10 years but I'm told that it has been since 1990 that the lake has been this high.Normally my dock is about 2 feet below the start of the catwalk. Here are a couple pictures. I was going to fish from my dock but now I think I'll fish from the bank.

In July, 2007, Eufaula was 597~598. We were launching boats from the front yard, any gravel area, or road bed that we could find. That was a very wet summer, and the Longtown area didn't clear up til fall. I couldn't buy a fish close to the cabin, had to go way south or down by Porum to find anything.

Here's a picture from last year showing the normal lake level. Notice the where the vehicles are parked and the electric pole with meters beside the top section of our walkway.




We took this picture on Sunday morning. Normally the first section of our walkway slopes down the hill. On Sunday, the walkway was level.




Our neighbor sent this picture to me yesterday. The parking area where the trucks were in the first picture is now under 4' of water. The first section of our walkway now goes uphill. The electric meters on the pole next to our walkway are now underwater as well.

😮 Anybody catching fish!? 😁