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- Water Management accounting of conservation storage by users on a monthly basis when 75% of the conservation pool remains
- Encourage a balanced drawdown of hydropower lakes
- Meet monthly with SWPA to allocate power for the following month
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| II |
- Notify state Water Resources Board and users when 50% of conservation storage remains
- Activate and schedule regular meetings of Corps Drought Management Committee to review project status and requests for assistance
- Recommend SWPA limit power production to firm yield; monitor pool draw down limits
- Promote conservation of water to users when they use over 50% of their authorized storage
- Provide resident offices with long range lake level forecasts to be passed on to concessionaires and dock owners
- Cease releases for non-critical project testing and inspection
- Schedule AD Hoc meeting of Interagency Drought Management Committee
- Notify public of possible boating safety hazards due to low lake levels
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| III |
- Activate the Interagency Drought Management Committee
- Instruct operations project manager to post warnings, closings, and boating hazards
- Begin weekly storage accounting procedures and provide updates on storage balances
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- Notify state Water Resources Board and users when 25% of conservation storage remains
- Comments should be sought by the Corps Drought Management Committee from interested individuals and groups so that they can best advise the District Commander on drought management decisions
- Schedule more frequent meetings of Corps Drought Management Committee as necessary
- Evaluate water intakes of contracted in-lake water users
- Identify surplus water supply for municipal and industrial use and costs
- Notify contract water users of impending need to contract for emergency water needs
- Minimize special event recreation releases
- Notify SWPA of impending restrictions of hydropower productio
- Increase frequency of water supply accounting as needed
- District Engineer and staff to determine surplus water available at Corps projects.
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