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Bureau of Reclamation Water Data Update – As of June 14, 2007 Water Year Type (Year Types are set according to total inflow and do not reflect current conditions) Upper Klamath Lake: Dry Klamath River: Below Average Additional Information Snowpack Basin-wide Percent of Average: pack at the Snotel sites is essentially zero now Upper Klamath Lake April-September 30th Stream Flow Forecast: 306,000 acre-feet at 50-percent exceedance Klamath River Flow Forecast: 293,600 acre-feet at 70-percent exceedance Upper Klamath Lake Level: 4,142.68 feet Upper Klamath Lake Inflow 7-day Average: 903 cubic feet per second (cfs) Link River Releases: 1,780 cfs Keno Releases: 1,180 cfs Iron Gate Dam Releases: 1,530 cfs Requirement June for Below Average Type in Biological Opinion: 1,525 cfs Shasta River Flow: 86 cfs Scott River Flow: 182 cfs Klamath River at Klamath, CA: 6,930 cfs Trinity River Basin – Dry Water Year (This year classification was set according to total inflow and does not reflect current conditions.) Trinity River Releases – below Lewiston Dam: 710 cfs Trinity River Flow – at Hoopa Gauge: 1,870 cfs This document is updated bi-weekly. Please circulate freely. For more information, please visit: http://www.usbr.gov/mp/kbao/operations/water/index.html Please contact: Paul Gregory, Klamath Basin Area Office, 541-880-2562, pgregory@mp.usbr.gov |
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