ACE Flood Storage Capacities. Wow!

[Red Childress]

Just pulled these off the ACE site a few minutes ago. If my math is correct, Tionesta has risen 25+ feet over the past 10 days and Kinzua has risen 22+ feet during that same time frame.

The following percentages are for used FLOOD STORAGE CAPACITIES for each individual reservoir. Berlin is absolutely full!!

Allegheny * 30%
Tionesta * 63%
Union City * 58%
Woodcock * 36%
East Branch * 21%
Mahoning * 54%
Crooked Cr. * 33%
Conemaugh * 60%
Loyalhanna * 29%
Stonewall * 42%
Tygart * 40%
Yough * 31%
Kirwan * 47%
Berlin * 100%
Milton * 50%
Mosquito * 69%
Shenango * 45%

[Red Childress]

Kinzua Dam is scheduled to be releasing 23,000 cfs beginning tomorrow. That will be the highest number since I arrived in Warren back in 1993.

For a comparison, normal summer discharge levels are around 1300 cfs.

[lowbidder]

I bet that is a sight to behold.

Maybe you can advertise "Maid of the Mist" trips at the tailrace ;)

[ppalko]

I'll bet that puts the water right up to the back door of a few camps/houses below the tailrace area! The river near Pittsburgh is so high that the low head dams are barely visible. Insane amounts of water. I wonder how far the burner riffle at the Warren Refinery will "move" upstream after this one.

[dragonfball]

A couple of brave souls were fishing the 59 side of the tail waters this morning. It looked like the ocean down there.

[toothyfishman]

I was doing some motor testing and was already there so I fished for a few hours. I was hard to find some slower water, most of it was in the woods :D
No action....but got to get out some.

Lots of debris.

Water was going over the road in two places by the starbrick launch. Water had the parking lot surrounded and was coming into the lot as I was leaving.
Launching the boat I had the whole road blocked with the truck.

[Red Childress]

They even increased the discharge from 23,000 to 24,800 today. I could barely fit under 2 local bridges while taking a boat ride today. I talked to a good friend who lives along the river and he said it was the highest he has seen it in 30+ years.

I went to a few 'logjam' areas to check on my musky structure with one of my favorite jams not showing up on the graph. I hope it has not washed out.

[toothyfishman]

We may loose a few hotspots and maybe gain some new ones!!!

I know I saw one complete tree floating down, root ball and all, probably a 60-70 foot long tree. Big power, scary stuff!

[Joe M]

The structure hot-spots are going to change for sure. The same thing happened in the late 90s with all the flooding. My tactics thing were a fish a outing then went to shit. I also believe that a bunch of fish go up into the wooded pools and when the water retreats we loose some fish from this. My 2 cents..

[Red Childress]

No end in sight for super high discharge levels. We had one heck of a storm last nite with the thunder vibrating my house!

Feeder creeks are full once again.

[Red Childress]

It looks like the outflow will be pretty close to "normal" by the weekend (finally). Maybe I can be lucky enough to chase a musky for the first time in 2011.

[Red Childress]

The outflow go from being the highest it has been in 30+ years (25,500 cfs) to the lowest level (1,000 cfs) in over 1 year beginning Friday. Interesting.

[ppalko]

That's one amazing change. in looking at the hydrograph, it looks like there were some extreme daily drops. Probably some stranded fish as a result.

[Red Childress]

At least they are reducing the discharge in daily increments.

[Red Childress]

Predicted discharge rates are heading back up again this week.......