Bloomington Release Aug 24-25
Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2013 12:34 pm
From USACE re. No. Branch Potomac River:
There will be a water quality release from Jennings Randolph Lake beginning on Saturday August 24. We will start increasing the flow at about 4 AM and reach about 1000 cfs at Barnum by 7 AM. The 1000 cfs flow will continue until Sunday August 25 at 3 PM when we plan to reduce flows over the next two hours. The post event flow will be about 265 cfs.
Unless we get additional rain between now and this weekend, this release will likely drop the lake elevation to a point that would necessitate closing the beach to swimming.
There will be a water quality release from Jennings Randolph Lake beginning on Saturday August 24. We will start increasing the flow at about 4 AM and reach about 1000 cfs at Barnum by 7 AM. The 1000 cfs flow will continue until Sunday August 25 at 3 PM when we plan to reduce flows over the next two hours. The post event flow will be about 265 cfs.
Unless we get additional rain between now and this weekend, this release will likely drop the lake elevation to a point that would necessitate closing the beach to swimming.