{"id":15797,"date":"2013-04-02T09:30:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T14:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=15797"},"modified":"2013-04-02T11:32:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T16:32:58","slug":"corps-to-start-pipestem-dam-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=15797","title":{"rendered":"Corps Starting Pipestem Dam Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/pipestem2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15829\" title=\"pipestem2\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/pipestem2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Omaha, NE (KCSi-T.V. News Apr 1, 2013) &#8212; The Army Corps of Engineers, announced Monday that Pipestem Reservoir will be initiating a &#8220;water quality release,&#8221; of 25 cfs on Tuesday (April 2, 2013).<\/p>\n<p>On Monday\u2019s (Apr 1, 2013) City Matters program on CSi Cable T.V. 10, Pipestem Dam Manager, Bob Martin added, that Pipestem Reservoir was at a pool elevation of 1442.6 feet, with approximately a 2 cfs inflow, and outflow.<\/p>\n<p>Jamestown Reservoir is currently at a pool elevation of 1429.7 feet with approximately a zero cfs inflow, and outflow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All the flood storage at Pipestem and Jamestown is currently available for the spring runoff.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday (Apr 2, 2013) a release of 25cfs will be initiated to benefit water quality in the reservoir.<\/p>\n<p>Release of low-level water will provide a benefit for water quality by facilitating aeration of the lake.<\/p>\n<p>Following this, small release, changes may occur for water quality purposes before the spring snow melt.<\/p>\n<p>Martin added, that during the spring snowmelt, emphasis will be placed on evacuating Jamestown Reservoir flood storage, by June 1, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Pipestem Reservoir flood storage will be primarily evacuated in June, July, and August.<\/p>\n<p>Current forecasts indicate that combined releases are expected to stay below 1200 cdfs with snowpack conditions being compared to 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Any agency meeting is being held in Jamestown on April 9, 2013, and a release schedule will be developed after the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>With the increased releases, river stages are expected to rise approximately 0.5 feet at the James River at the Jamestown gage, and 0.25 feet at the James River LaMoure gage.<\/p>\n<p>River stages on the James River in North Dakota and South Dakota are available on the U.S. Geological Survey web site at<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/distribution.mymediainfo.com\/lists\/lt.php?id=fB8KAlVZAVYCDE8CUQBWAU9WVFQAAA8%3D\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">http:\/\/nd.water.usgs.gov\/floodinfo\/james.html<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omaha, NE (KCSi-T.V. News Apr 1, 2013) &#8212; The Army Corps of Engineers, announced Monday that Pipestem Reservoir will be initiating a &#8220;water quality release,&#8221; of 25 cfs on Tuesday (April 2, 2013). On Monday\u2019s (Apr 1, 2013) City Matters program on CSi Cable T.V. 10, Pipestem Dam Manager, Bob [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15797"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15827,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15797\/revisions\/15827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}