{"id":249453,"date":"2022-06-10T10:09:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T15:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=249453"},"modified":"2022-06-10T10:09:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T15:09:30","slug":"discharge-operations-from-devils-lake-outlets-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=249453","title":{"rendered":"Discharge Operations From Devils Lake Outlets Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"100%\">\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Thursday, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) began annual discharge operations of the Devils Lake Outlets.\u00a0Both the West and East Outlets are currently operating at 75 cubic feet per second (cfs) for a combined pumping rate of 150 cfs.\u00a0When operating at full capacity, the West and East Devils Lake Outlets combined are able to discharge 600 cfs.<\/p>\n<p>From where the lake was before freeze-up last fall at elevation 1,447.1, Devils Lake has risen about 3.5 feet so far this year to an elevation of 1450.6 feet.\u00a0The lake is expected to potentially rise to a peak elevation of around 1,451 feet by mid-summer.<\/p>\n<p>Department of Water Resources staff have continued to work with local, state, and federal partners to monitor run-off conditions in the Devils Lake Basin very closely this spring.\u00a0In addition, on May 11 a meeting of the Devils Lake Outlets Management Advisory Committee was held in Devils Lake to assess existing basin conditions, to review the 2021 outlet operational summary, to outline 2022 operations, and to hear from impacted landowners and stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the rising lake levels that we\u2019ve seen again at Devils Lake this spring and early summer, the outlets will continue to be a critical component in ongoing efforts to reduce flood-related damages in that region,\u201d said DWR Director Andrea Travnicek.\u00a0\u201cAs in the past, downstream river flows and water quality conditions will continue to be monitored and outlet operations will be adjusted as necessary to ensure they\u2019re being operated as efficiently and responsibly as possible.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) began annual discharge operations of the Devils Lake Outlets.\u00a0Both the West and East Outlets are currently operating at 75 cubic feet per second (cfs) for a combined pumping rate of 150 cfs.\u00a0When operating at full capacity, the West and East Devils Lake Outlets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249453","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249458,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249453\/revisions\/249458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}