{"id":45480,"date":"2014-05-10T23:21:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T04:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=45480"},"modified":"2014-05-10T23:22:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T04:22:04","slug":"corps-to-adjust-dam-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=45480","title":{"rendered":"Corps To Adjust Dam Releases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/reservoir2009.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2862\" alt=\"reservoir2009\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/reservoir2009-300x204.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/reservoir2009-300x204.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/reservoir2009-257x175.png 257w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/reservoir2009.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Jamestown, (CSi)\u00a0 On Monday, May 12,\u00a0 2014 Releases from the Jamestown and Pipestem dams will\u00a0be adjusted due to recent rainfall amounts in the James River Basin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pipestem Dam Manager Bob Martin,\u00a0with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, says the release from Pipestem Dam will be\u00a0cut to 5\u00a0cfs, and\u00a0releases from Jamestown Dam will increase to 445 cfs, for a combined release of 450 cfs.<\/p>\n<p>Before Monday,\u00a0releases from Pipestem Dam are at 50 cfs with 400 cfs from Jamestown Dam.<\/p>\n<p>Martin said officials are attempting to have Jamestown Dam at its conservation pool, or normal level, of 1,431 feet mean sea level by June 1, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The water level atJamestown Dam was at 1,433.7 feet msl as of 1 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The water level\u00a0at Pipestem Dam\u00a0was at 1,457.7 feet and is rising about 4 inches per day.<\/p>\n<p>The releases at Jamestown Dam have remained steady for much of the past week with outflows roughly matching inflows.<\/p>\n<p>When\u00a0Jamestown Dam reaches conservation pool, releases will decrease\u00a0there and increase at Pipestem Dam.<\/p>\n<p>Martin says release plans are based on average rainfall.<\/p>\n<p>Any heavy rainfall may require increased releases to reach the target reservoir levels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown, (CSi)\u00a0 On Monday, May 12,\u00a0 2014 Releases from the Jamestown and Pipestem dams will\u00a0be adjusted due to recent rainfall amounts in the James River Basin.\u00a0 Pipestem Dam Manager Bob Martin,\u00a0with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, says the release from Pipestem Dam will be\u00a0cut to 5\u00a0cfs, and\u00a0releases from Jamestown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45480","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\/45480","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=45480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45482,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45480\/revisions\/45482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}