Water orders accepted until Sept. 10, planned shut down Sept. 15 to Oct. 1

Staff report, Lahontan Valley News

TCID expects Lahontan Reservoir to drop to 36,000 acre feet by the end of August.

The allocation to water users for this year has been increased from 75 percent to 80 percent, states a press release from the Tahoe-Carson Irrigation District's Board of Directors.
Orders taken through the close of business on Sept. 10 will be delivered until Sept. 15, at which time the releases from Lahontan will be discontinued for two weeks until Oct. 1. Water will then be released again from Lahontan until the end of the season.

TCID expects Lahontan Reservoir to drop to about 36,000 acre-feet by the end of August and to about 29,000 acre feet by the end of September, reaching 4,000 acre-feet in November. Releases from Lahontan Reservoir will be reduced to a level that prevents the storage from dropping below 4,000 acre-feet.

The maximum Truckee Canal diversion allowed is 350 cubic feet per second (cfs), which is more than is available of the Floriston Rates water that arrives at Derby Dam. For August, the Floriston Rates is 500 cfs, plus 100 cfs of fish water released from Stampede Reservoir. This fish water must pass below Derby Dam and is not available for use by TCID water users.

In addition to the fish water, TCID reports 34 cfs is required to be released below Derby Dam for Claim 1 agricultural water for the Pyramid Lake Tribe, 15 cfs is required to a transfer of water from Truckee Meadows to below Derby Dam and 81 cfs is required to be released for the unused portions of Claims 1 and 2, for a total of 230 cfs below Derby Dam.

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