At the end of June, the lake level was almost EXACTLY where it should have been to match the 40+ year mean targeting. I don't call that "botching" management of the high spring rain amounts. We came out of Spring right where we should have been.
Since then, there has been a dearth of rain, especially in August. We are in drought conditions. The dam output has been at the lowest possible level, 250 CFS, for all of August and since mid July. Early July was at 350 CFS with some brief bounces to 600 CFS which I would suspect was associated with maintenance efforts. For all intents, the dam has been as "shut" as much as it can be for the last 2 months.
The problem has NOT been mismanagement. The problem is NO RAIN. You can't "manage" water resources that are not delivered by mother nature.
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