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Bad blood between Toledo bend and lower sabine
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Ignorance. Toledo Bend damn is not a flood control structure.
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Under some situations..... IMO..... this guideline does cause the flooding to be worse down stream of the dam. Example: If the lake is 1 foot below full pool level [172'] and it is raining very hard up just north of the lake.... to me, it would make since to not wait a day or so for the lake water to "hit" the magic level before the opening gates. If the SRA would open a few gates [or run the generators] before the lake rises to above pool level, down stream flood could be a reduced a little because fewer total gates would have to be opened. The SAR guidelines need to be changed...... IMO to hopefully reduce some of the downstream flooding. |
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You are absolutely correct! |
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i agree to extent but they need more research or someone to actually do the research to know how much rain in which area will do to the lake. Example one inch on 3 miles of sabine drainage area will make the lake go up 6". (no clue if that is correct) I think what they are attempting to do is not let more water than is needed so they can make the money off of generating. Which if they don't make i would assume would have to come out of taxes to maintain the lake.
What gets hairy is do you trust predictions if it is coming back to back. they call for 100% all the time and it is sun shining. So you lost all that profit if you let all that water go and you don't get any rain in another month. Its tricky and isn't always black and white. |
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I don't see why they can't generator to lower levels. Im sure a lot has to do with ppl that live/have camps on the lake want their little ditch to have water so they can have "waterfront" property and could care less about the lives affected down stream. I understand its not a flood control structure but seems like they could figure something out. They sure don't mind dropping levels when they need to work on a generator or the dam. It has 0 effect on me at all I just feel there could be a way to regulate it better.
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So what would you say if they retained all of the water above the damn and flooded folks around the lake? Price you gotta pay I guess? |
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I also have a camp on whiskey ****to that is underwater right now. but it isn't anyones fault except mother nature. I could blame bun****s lake since it pours in right above us but i don't. Hell they flood most of the time too. I agree they can get better but not at the expense of draining the lake to do it. |
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The areas some of these people live in (I live pretty close) are in bottomland hardwoods with a deep sand layer. That sand got there from being deposited from the Sabine River flooding many many many times before Toledo Bend was a though and before any of us or our ancestors were here. |
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Get ready for more . . Sabine river behind my house . . N of Tyler . .
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