Releases from Davis and Parker dams will vary from about 4,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) to 23,000 cfs during a 24-hour period. River levels will vary during the 24-hour periods with the higher levels coinciding with periods of peak hydroelectric power generation. Levels below the dams are usually highest during the afternoon and early evening. Average daily releases may vary in response to changing conditions.

Average daily releases and midnight lake elevations for the week, as well as anticipated averages for the following 2 weeks, are scheduled as follows:

  	   Parker             Davis              Hoover         
            Dam       Lake     Dam       Lake     Dam       Lake 
            Average   Havasu   Average   Mohave   Average   Mead 
            Release   Elev.    Release   Elev.    Release   Elev.
Date        (cfs)     (ft)     (cfs)     (ft)     (cfs)     (ft) 
----        -----     ----     -----     ----     -----     ---- 
Apr  9      14000    447.3     19300    641.0     21200    1128.0
Apr 10      14000    447.4     19300    641.1     21200    1127.8
Apr 11      14000    447.4     19300    641.2     21200    1127.6
Apr 12      10500    447.9     19300    641.4     21200    1127.4
Apr 13      14000    447.9     19300    641.5     21200    1127.2
Apr 14      14000    448.0     19300    641.4     18400    1127.1
Apr 15      14000    448.0     19300    641.2     18400    1126.9

Average     13500              19300              20400

Apr 16 to
Apr 22      13300    448.7     18600    641.9     20400    1125.6

Apr 23 to
Apr 29      12900    448.8     17500    643.1     20400    1124.2

Current Lake Powell storage is 15,487 thousand acre-feet (KAF) (64 percent of capacity). Lake Mead storage is 14,454 KAF (55 percent of capacity). Total system storage is 37,513 KAF (63 percent of capacity). Lake Powell elevation is 3,635.58 feet.

The April-July forecast for the Colorado River is 3.5 million acre-feet or 49 percent of average.

Yesterday, the average Colorado River flows were 662 cfs near the Yuma Fourth Avenue Bridge and 3,065 cfs at the Northerly International Boundary. The average release from Painted Rock Dam was 0 cfs and Alamo Dam was 51 cfs. The Morelos Dam diversions for the week of 09-Apr-2012 are expected to be 2,922 cfs.

ALL RIVER USERS should remember that fluctuating river flows may conceal or create natural hazards such as moving sandbars, gravel bars, unstable riverbanks, floating or submerged debris, or other unfamiliar obstacles. Caution should be exercised while using the river between Davis Dam and the Mexican Border at San Luis, Arizona.