If the lake is 71 sq miles and you tried to drop the level 1in, you need to dump 139,029,844 gals of water. If you let 600 cu ft/sec through the damm you would dump 16,156.800 gals in a 1hr period. So you would drop the lake more than 1 in overnight if you released 600 cu ft/sec and no other water was entering the lake from brooks, rivers, springs etc..... so if you release 600 cu ft per/sec for a 24 hr period and the level stayed the same then you will know how much water is entering the lake per hr. Of course we would have to make some adjustment for evaroration, water that is removed from the lake on bathing suits, ducks feet and such. Problem is the conditions are changing constantly so as soon as you think you have it all figured out it starts raining or it cools off and you gotta start figuring out the eqaution all over again. The solution might be to have DES run three shifts so they can pass accumulated data on the the next shift coming into work. Then it gets real dificult because one land owner wants the level higher and one wnts it lower proving that you just can't keep evry one happy. I vote for leaving things the way they are, and think that the people who are in charge of controlling the lake level do an incredible job. I would suggest giving them a raise but that would raise boat reg fees and even more people would complain! WOW my brain is tired, I need to go sit down and cool off.
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