WSP06378

• File Number: 8220.200.05.P
• Description: Hoover Dam/Lake Mead/Boulder Canyon Project
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 5/2/1979
• Author: USACOE
• Title: Transcript of a Public Hearing for Re-evaluation of A Flood Control Operation Plan for Hoover Dam: Parker AZ
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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the article stated?

PRESIDING OFFICER: Okay, I'm going to stumble

on this and when I stumble Bob over here from the Bureau

will pick me up on it since they're making the release. It's

my understanding, though, that the releases will probably

be somewhere between a thousand (1,000), eleven hundred

.

(1,000) cubic-feet-per-second.

MR. MASON: To start.

PRESIDING OFFICER: To start.

HR. BRANTINGllAH: So we're going to build up

as that time period --

PRESIDING OFFICER: Up to a release possibly

of, what was it?

MR. ~~SON: Our plan here is to release water

so we can also generate power at the power plant down near

the Yuma area. We will start off with a flow of about

eleven hundred (1,100). I think you will get about a

thousand (1000) at that power plant. We will then after

two (2) or three (3) days go up five hundred (500) ,cubic-feet

per-second and we'll continue that again for two (2) or

three (3) days. Eventually we'll get up to about twenty-six

hundred (2,600) cubic-feet-per-second. Now this is an

increase over what we have been delivering. However, it's

about the same flow that we had a year ago.

MR. BRANTINGHAM: So that's basically a