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browntrout
01-31-2013, 01:59 PM
As per COE Facebook site:
Sluicing will begin at Center Hill Dam at approximately 4:00 p.m. on 01/31/2013, and will continue through the rest of the weekend.

I think they are turning the sluice back on due to a generator being out and they are needing to bring the lake level down. I do not believe it is due to water quality. Someone may know more than I do about that.

Roy
MNfisher
01-31-2013, 03:59 PM
I agree with you, the lake is getting pretty high and rising fast, so since one generator is down, that is their only means of letting more water out.
Travis C.
01-31-2013, 04:05 PM
That's probably why.

Let's hope its not a water quality issue this early in the year or we'll all be just bluegill fishing with Alpha up there by August cause the trout won't be swimming anymore. :D
browntrout
01-31-2013, 04:34 PM
This is only published on their Facebook page. It is not published on the generation schedule page. If the COE is so concerned about our safety you would think they would publish it on the generation schedule page......just saying.

Roy
Alphahawk
01-31-2013, 05:36 PM
That's probably why.

Let's hope its not a water quality issue this early in the year or we'll all be just bluegill fishing with Alpha up there by August cause the trout won't be swimming anymore. :D

Hey....I resemble that remark...LOL.


Regards
jad2t
01-31-2013, 07:25 PM
This is only published on their Facebook page. It is not published on the generation schedule page. If the COE is so concerned about our safety you would think they would publish it on the generation schedule page......just saying.

Roy

I'm pretty sure they'll be here in Cookeville for the Engineering Career Fair at TTU in late February. Part of me wants to stop by their booth and give them a piece of my mind but the other part of me realizes it's going to do no good and it's pointless.
CreekWalker
02-01-2013, 11:50 AM
They were pulling around 7,000cfs for weeks - was this all from the sluice? How long has the generators been down?
browntrout
02-01-2013, 12:01 PM
They were pulling around 7,000cfs for weeks - was this all from the sluice? How long has the generators been down?

Only 1 generator has been out. The other 2 have working. They have turned the sluice on now to pull more water.

Roy
MNfisher
02-01-2013, 01:34 PM
I see they are currently releasing 11,600. They must have gotten that 3rd generator working.
old sailor
02-01-2013, 03:43 PM
I see they are currently releasing 11,600. They must have gotten that 3rd generator working.

Currently releasing 8400 turbines - 3200 gate - 92 megawatts .Think 3 generators = 120 megawatts
browntrout
02-01-2013, 03:46 PM
Old sailor is right...that is 2 plus the sluice. What do you think that will do to the fishing old sailor?

Roy
MNfisher
02-01-2013, 03:52 PM
Gotcha, I thought 7000 cfs was the 2 gens, 3500 each.
old sailor
02-01-2013, 04:15 PM
Old sailor is right...that is 2 plus the sluice. What do you think that will do to the fishing old sailor?

Roy

Tough to say. I like sluice + generators. Don't like sluice alone. Lake still rising.
browntrout
02-01-2013, 04:22 PM
Tough to say. I like sluice + generators. Don't like sluice alone. Lake still rising.

Maybe we should take your boat up close to the dam and wave at the nice man with the bullhorn and the other nice man with the camera. I would like to have my picture in the presentation next week. Let me know when you want to go. I will dress up and get a haircut.

Roy