Odds on pelly

[shorthairsrus]

NOAA putting out some predicts what do u think. Prolly ramp open or dry

 

[Sum1]

Pelly?

 

[Davey Crockett]

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[guywhofishes]

A wonderful bird is the #######, his bill can hold more than his belly can...

 

[Captain Ahab]

I can like Pelly can. Very motivational.

 

[raider]

i'm hearing 4-5', so yes...

i'm just wondering if i'll get north of the 6 mile bridge...

 

[lunkerslayer]

Absolutely

 

[Davey Crockett]

Can someone tell me or send me to a link that will inform me how much $$$ it costs to run the outlet pumps ? I just looked for about 1/2 hour and couldn't find it. I was told even a blind squirrel could find an acorn once in awhile but I failed.

 

[Davey Crockett]

What I finally found was it cost $ 330.000 per month in electricity to run the pumps and it will supposedly draw down the lake 1 inch a month. I don't want that someone to think I bitch and whine about everything but doesn't this seem to be throwing good money after bad money ? I didn't keep up on the politics of it when it all fell into place.

 

[espringers]

It might be $330,000 per pump per month actually

 

[Davey Crockett]

It looks like this year is a given , Might of been johnr that voted no just dinking around.:wheretheyat:

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It might be $330,000 per pump per month actually

Yikes

 

[PrairieGhost]

In the past I liked it warm in the 50's for deer season. Now I want it cold so they shut off those pumps. I camp on the south side of the river and shoot 90% of my deer on the north side. The river isn't much up there and all during the 70's, 80's, and 90's I would just drive across the gravel ford and get my deer. Or walk across if it was deeper. Now it's a 10 or 12 mile trip around across the closest bridge. Harder than heck to paddle from my brothers upstream to shoot beaver or fish too.

It would have cost half as much to pay for upstream wetland restoration even if they paid twice what the land was worth.

 

[espringers]

Not true PG. Nevermind that there isnt enough storage up there to make a difference. But, as an example: west bay, main bay, east devils and stump cover 188,000 acres at 1454. Thats a volume of about 3,500,000 acre-feet. I dont think that even includes irvin, alice, dry, chain, mikes, cavanaugh, sweetwater, Morrison, etc... anyway, to simply reduce it from 1454 to 1453 (3,315,000 acre-feet), you need to store 185,000 acre-feet someplace upstream. To bring it from 1454 to 1444 (about 2,000,000 acre-feet) you need to store 1,500,000 acre feet of water someplace. Considering that the entire basin is only 2,500,000 acres, you can start to see problems already without even doing the math on how many acres would actually need to be purchased, the cost of said purchase and the cost of actually moving dirt on these wetlands restoration projects. Add in the economic loss of flooding that many acres and you can really get a true feel for the cost. Given the geology of the basin, its currently being stored in the most economically efficient way. I am 95% certain the corp of engineers looked into your option, did some simple math and looked at a map for about 5 minutes and chose the cheaper and most beneficial option for all. But, guys like richard betting could never be told that.

 

[lunkerslayer]

Army corp last year changed the optimum lake level from 1456 to 1458. 1458 is when the pumps will be shut off.

 

[Davey Crockett]

Did you mean 1448 ? I'm mixed up

 

[Auggie]

Should be 1448. At 1458 and change it drains naturally.

 

[buckhunter24_7]

Gotta love spending money on pumping water out instead of using the free option

 

[lunkerslayer]

Yeah my bad 1448

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[Journey]

Depending on what march brings, I don't believe there is enough moisture yet to get pilican open.