Engineers and operators have determined that an adequate amount of water has been released from Lake Granby, so we'll get back to filling the reservoir. We've kept the reservoir at lower levels to leave room for the finale of our forecasted runoff and to prevent the need for sudden large releases downstream.
We are going to decrease releases gradually, which limits environmental disruptions. We will cut flows back 200 cfs per day until we reach an outflow of 1,000 cfs, which will be early next week. Then we'll determine whether outflows should be reduced more.
With this reduction in releases, Lake Granby's elevation should begin to rise noticeably in the next week.
2011 RUNOFF UPDATE
