05-13-2023, 04:54 PM
I think it's the practice all water managers do in high snow pack years, trying to judge when is the right time to stop filling up the lakes and dump it until right before they figure that there is just enough left in the snow pack to fill it to the top. With Willard being just a few few from being full, I'm sure that is the plan but the issue as I see it is why not just fill it first, then dump it. Willard isn't like a lot of other lakes, where they have only one outlet, they could just shut off the water coming into Willard at the gates by the baffles instead of running it out the outlet. A lot of fish get flushed out of the lake when they make those decisions, not good IMO.