Just read two MAJOR facts: 1) there was an 1897 flood that at ≈80,000 cubic feet per second made this flood pale. That is roughly ≈2260 meters cubed per second and last week the Bow peaked at 1680 m3/second. In height if we take the 2013 flood at ≈4m then the 1897 flood was about 0.75 cm higher. 2) The Diagram which I made 23 hrs ago, which I thought USELESS, is almost exactly what happened in 1932. The Glenmore Dam was just finished. The 1932 flood of the century was tempered by the roughly 50,000,000 to cubic meters of the empty reservoir. As it was, that flood still caused a peak discharge of about 1520 meters cubed per second in the BOW! The Ghost dam was built in 1929 and probably filled to capacity by then. We may want to consider choosing between a few meters of water in the Ghost and having 24 hrs of warning for a FLOOD. Of course we will get hammered by a drought next year . . .
Posted on: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 00:42:34 +0000
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