This in from PG&E (who operate the McCloud Hydropower facility):
PG&E is observing rapidly increasing inflows into McCloud Reservoir and anticipates that McCloud Dam will begin to spill earlier than previously forecasted. The reservoir has increased approximately 4.7 feet in the past 72 hours and continues a rapid ascent.
PG&E has taken careful steps to manage the increasing inflow into McCloud Reservoir by monitoring reservoir level, maintaining a low water surface elevation in Iron Canyon Reservoir, and diverting water through James B. Black Powerhouse to maintain the maximum amount of storage capacity. Despite these efforts, deep snow pack and increasing spring snowmelt means that the capacity of the McCloud Reservoir will fill and water will spill over the dam spillway.
Based on the current increasing inflow conditions into McCloud Reservoir, PG&E anticipated that McCloud Dam will begin spilling on Wednesday evening/Thursday morning (April 27 / 28, 2011).
At this time PG&E is unable to accurately provide an estimate of the anticipated spill magnitude, as inflow to the reservoir continues to increase hourly. However, based on inflow trends as of this notification, initial spill flow from McCloud Dam may be approximately 500 to 600 cubic feet per second with regular increases likely until inflows subside.
Amusingly, my very recent post about the season opener suggests the McCloud will offer good fly fishing.
Once again, the illusion of omnipotence is shattered…
See you eating blackbird, Tom Chandler.
Don’t be a ‘Weenie’. Come up! .There’s alot more to the McCloud than just the fish. Besides you can always drive into Dunsmuir stop at the brewery get drunk, get naked and throw potatoe salad…..
couching tiger(Quote)
I need to point out this last sentence is *not* endorsed by the Dunsmuir Chamber of Commerce…
Tom Chandler(Quote)
Heading to a Trout Unlimited banquet tonight. Nice thing about a banquet…it can’t be blown out from run-off water. Nor can it be rained out.
Sometimes there are mild cases of blowhard…but no straight-up blow out.
I’ll lay ten to one odds that at least five guys at the banquet will be wearing shirts with pockets on the sleeves. On the sleeves!
Jeff Vande Zande(Quote)
In fly fishing? How is that possible?!
If you want to lose your faith in humanity, consider attending a banquet with a hosted bar. Oy.
Tom Chandler(Quote)
Actually, tonight wasn’t bad. Good guys (on the whole), lots of money raised for a local stream, good food…and I won maple syrup and four really nice whiskey glasses.
Plus, I walked away with a hat, a beer stein, and a 9-foot leader.
And, only two guys had pockets on their sleeves!
Sadly, the guy who won my donated copy of Threatened Species was sitting behind me, and I heard him mutter, “Oh great, another book I’ll never read.”
Jeff Vande Zande(Quote)
You should have turned to him and said “Yeah, I read it and got tired of all the sex that cluttered the thing between fishing scenes.”
Tom Chandler(Quote)
Actually, I was just about to turn around and tell him that I’d sign it for him, but I didn’t want to hear him say, “Just what I need, another autograph that I’ll never read.”
My name is a three parter, so it can be a burden to read. Toss in my middle name “Charles” and it’s practically a novel.
Jeff Vande Zande(Quote)