Lake and Flow News - Latest E-mail Message

September 02, 2008

Due to the inland movement of Hurricane Gustav, heavy rainfall is expected in our area over the next several days. We are currently attempting to drop the levels of lakes Hamilton and Catherine by one foot to give us a little bit of storage capacity should we get a flash flood rainfall. This drawdown will not result in high flow conditions below Remmel Dam, but when the rains come you should be prepared to see high flow releases from both Carpenter and Remmel Dam. These flows will be dependant upon the rainfall that we actually get. The current forecast is for around 9 inches with the potential for much more.

I highly recommend that everyone have a NOAA Weather Radio as this will be the most reliable source for rapid notification of potential high flow warnings on the Ouachita River as well as tornado and other severe weather alerts.

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You can hear this message recorded at 501-844-2125.

Disclaimer: This message was provided as a public service by Entergy Arkansas, Inc. There is no guarantee that actual releases will occur as described. We do our best to plan our operations and to accurately communicate those plans, however system conditions are subject to change at a moment's notice and we may not always be available to communicate those changes in a timely fashion.

Real time lake and tributary data is available on the web at contrail.onerain.com use "entergy" as your ID and "guest" as your password.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments and visit our website at www.entergy.com/hydro.

Ted Smethers
Entergy Hydro Operations
141 W. County Line Road
Malvern, AR 72104
501-844-2162 Office
501-844-2172 FAX
501-620-0601 Mobile
Ted Smethers