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Originally Posted by sea_n_ski
Who is in charge of controlling the flow of the dam? Why would they cut the flow back while the lake is still rising? So your telling me we should all be flooded so some boat club in Lowell MA isn’t?
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The guy is hiding behind his desk with a stupid “no decision” on the lake level. Tell him to be a man and address the issue and at least have a response. Tell him to explain to all of us why he did what he did and what he plans to rectify the situation. Tell him to open the dam!
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Aaaah I dunno about you but I wouldn't call the present rate (2050 CFS) out of the dam as being anything close to "
closed". It may be down from the ~2500 max I've seen but it's not like the dam keepers aren't doing anything. The lake is going down. While it's not unreasonable to assume the reduction is out of concern for the downstream residents it might also be out of concern for the dam. I thought rates over 1000 CFS were beyond the normal operation of the dam and achieved only by opening the flood gates. For all I know they've flowed so much water recently that there's some other (structural) reason they can't leave the gate(s) opened.
But let's assume it's because the downstream people can't handle any more flow. Remember that just downsteam are Winnisquam & Silver lakes and when Winni goes up/down a foot, that same quantity of water can cause 5+ ft of rise/fall on Silver lake. Right now Winnisquam is ~1 ft over normal (about what we are). I guess we should just screw them ? Tell you what though, I'll try to arrange a meeting between you and someone downstream. We'll lock you both in a room and you can yell "Me, me, me, me .... My docks, my docks, my docks" until your ears burst. Geesh
