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Water Releases
November 16th, 2011 - Flood control storage at both Jamestown and Pipestem Reservoirs in North Dakota is approaching normal levels as flood waters from this summer have been evacuated, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced today.
The pool level at Jamestown Reservoir reached its fall target level of 1429.8 feet on Nov 7. The reservoir continues to be reduced to a target winter level of 1428 f eet. The current release out of Jamestown Dam is 425 cubic feet per second (cfs). The releases will continue to be ramped down over the next couple of weeks until they are matching inflows.
Pipestem Reservoir reached normal winter conditions on Nov 14 as releases began to match inflows. The gates on the outlet works are set to a fill-and-spill operation, where the flow is regulated by an overflow weir in the outlet works. The pool level will continue to drop slightly as inflows drop over the winter. Going into the winter, combined releases are expected to be in the 200 to 300 cfs range.
Pipestem Reservoir peaked on August 21 at a level of 1488.7 feet, which is 1.9 feet higher than the previous peak this year of 1486.8 on May 25. Jamestown Reservoir peaked on August 19 at a level of 1450.1 feet, which is 1.1 feet less than the previous peak this year o f 1451.2 on May 2. The August 21 peak pool level at Pipestem and the May 2 peak pool level at Jamestown were the second highest experienced at each reservoir behind the 2009 record pool levels.
The 2011 peak daily inflow into Jamestown was 14,300 cfs during the snow melt; this was a record inflow into the reservoir. For Pipestem, the 2011 peak daily inflow was 4,200 cfs. The flow volume at the James River at Jamestown stream gage for 2011 is expected to be 830,000 acre feet. This is the highest flow volume on record at the gage exceeding 520,000 acre feet in 2009 and 420,000 acre feet in 1997.
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