During the Churchill County Commission meeting held last week, County Manager Jim Barbee reported that there will be a request at the next commission meeting, on July 19, to go out of the Emergency Declaration that was implemented on March 2, 2023, and cease flood operations.
“We hit the peaks from the high temperatures of the flow coming off the mountain which created a second level peak which was around 2,500 cubic feet per second and looks to be trailing back down now and looks like we got through that process,” he said.
Barbee, along with officials from the Truckee Carson Irrigation District and other community leaders met on Friday morning last week with U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen and her staff on the ground at the weir on the V-Line Canal. Barbee has been working with the Senator’s staff on getting reimbursement through the Bureau of Reclamation or the Department of Interior for roughly $4.7 million the county expended in costs for the installation of the second weir earlier this spring to assist in managing water flows through the valley to prevent flooding.
“She and her staff have been fantastic to work with,” he said.
Currently, the level of water in Lahontan Reservoir is 294,900 acre-feet. Lahontan was originally built to hold 295,000 a.f. of water, but with flashboards installed on the top of the dam, it can hold 312,000 a.f. An acre-foot of water is the volume of water that would cover an acre of land with one foot of water and is the equivalent of 326,000 gallons.
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