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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River was washed out. All our docks and everything else,

because they hit us with a bang of water and they washed

half of my beach away and a lot of other peoples' with this

bang of water and then two (2) hours later the River was

down. This is the thing that we would like to know is, can
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PRESIDING OFFICER: Good question. Don't go

away.

Gordon?

HR. FREENY: Yeah. The flow that I think

you're recalling was a rain-induced event rather than a

release --

A VOICE: No way.

MR. FIELS: No way. That was when you opened

the River after having it closed down for repairs in

January of two (2) years ago. After having it closed down,

you washed out most all the docks up and down the River.

l,';~ You just opened it with a bang. I had a wall go out three
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(3) feet and everybody else along the River had th~ same

problem.

MR. FREENY: The regulations on how we pick

up the generating units is that they can only pick up one

A VOICE: They picked up ten (lO) foot in

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about seven (7) hours.