Remmel Release @ 9600, labor Day weekend...WHY?

[Mike S]

Friday, Saturday and Sunday will be a repeat of Tuesday’s release:

Blakely will begin releasing about 6,600 CFS from 10 AM to 11 PM. Carpenter and Remmel will begin releasing 9,600 CFS from Noon to 8 PM. This release will cause Lake Hamilton to rise a few inches and then it will drop about 6 inches. It will remain well within the operating rule curve.



Then on Monday we will return to our current release pattern.

Blakely, Carpenter and Remmel Dams will be releasing about 3,600 CFS from about 10 AM to 10 PM daily.

This SUCKS! I got a lot of customers to call! of all the weekends had to be Labor day weekend! We were basically sold out all weekend....

[sig]

Entergy sent out three emails regarding flows this weekend. Apparently they received enough complaints and the last one said...

After getting some calls and e-mails about the high flow releases from Remmel Dam over the Labor Day weekend, we initiated additional discussions with the system dispatchers and decided that we could back off to the normal release schedule for the weekend. And so here is the latest. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

On Wednesday and Thursday, Remmel will begin releasing about 3,600 CFS at about 9 AM and continue past midnight. Blakely will begin releasing about 6,600 CFS from about 10 AM to 9 PM with reduced flows in the last couple of hours. Carpenter will be releasing about 3,600 at Noon and increase to about 7,900 CFS from about 1 to 7 PM and then reduce to about 3,600 at 7 PM to 9 PM.

On Friday, Blakely will begin releasing about 6,600 CFS from 10 AM to 11 PM. Carpenter and Remmel will begin releasing 9,600 CFS from Noon to 8 PM. This release will cause Lake Hamilton to rise a few inches and then it will drop about 6 inches then refill. It will remain well within the operating rule curve.

Then on Saturday we will return to our current release pattern.
Blakely, Carpenter and Remmel Dams will be releasing about 3,600 CFS from about 10 AM to 10 PM daily.


DeGray will be releasing about 2,800 CFS from 1 to 9 PM daily.

[Lupe]

Mike - some good news...I hope you saw this already, but it sounds like they were able to make some improvements. Per latest update from Ted:

"After getting some calls and e-mails about the high flow releases from Remmel Dam over the Labor Day weekend, we initiated additional discussions with the system dispatchers and decided that we could back off to the normal release schedule for the weekend. And so here is the latest. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

On Wednesday and Thursday, Remmel will begin releasing about 3,600 CFS at about 9 AM and continue past midnight. Blakely will begin releasing about 6,600 CFS from about 10 AM to 9 PM with reduced flows in the last couple of hours. Carpenter will be releasing about 3,600 at Noon and increase to about 7,900 CFS from about 1 to 7 PM and then reduce to about 3,600 at 7 PM to 9 PM.

On Friday, Blakely will begin releasing about 6,600 CFS from 10 AM to 11 PM. Carpenter and Remmel will begin releasing 9,600 CFS from Noon to 8 PM. This release will cause Lake Hamilton to rise a few inches and then it will drop about 6 inches then refill. It will remain well within the operating rule curve.

Then on Saturday we will return to our current release pattern.
Blakely, Carpenter and Remmel Dams will be releasing about 3,600 CFS from about 10 AM to 10 PM daily."

I hope this helps!

[Mike S]

Yeah I got the revision, makes me Happy! Ted is the man!!

However I did have time to reflect on how good it has been to have the flow we have had all summer I didn't really have room to complain. Its been a GREAT season!

[Richard]

I am not at all familiar with the dam releases. Does the new schedule mean that it will be running the same cfs as what typically happens during S&T? And will it be all three days, Sat-Mon?

[sig]

Yes... 3600cfs is considered a full/normal release.