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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thousand (3,000) cfs out at Painted Rock on the Gila River

and something slightly better than two thousand (2,000) cfs

are actually arriving to the Colorado River right at Yuma.

HR. BRANTIllGHAM: How much are we seeing

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through Parker Dam right now?

HR. FREENY: Right now we're averaging a 1ittl~

: better than two thousand (2,000) cfs less than we normally

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MR. Br~~TINGHAM: Okay, what's our total cfs?

MR. FRBENY: Right now it's, without the

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cfs, approximately. It varies from day to day. And this

additional -- normally we would be running maybe fourteen

thousand (14,000) cfs.

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MR. BRANTINGHAM: During the summer do we

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normally see sixteen thousand (16,000) cfs?

MR. FREENY: Sometimes, yes.

MR. BRN~TINGHAM: I don't see much difference

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thousand (12,000) cfs and certainly last summer, sixteen

(16,000) or the. last three (3) summers.

MR. FREENY: Part of the reason for that is

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the fact that almost every day they go to nineteen thousand

(19,000) cfs for a portion of the day anyway.

HR. BR1\..~TIUGHAH: Uh huh (yes).