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Operations report: water transfers, lake levels and costs detailed to McGee Creek trustees
Summary
Operations staff reported an 8-foot drawdown during pumping season with more than half recovered to 4 feet low, roughly 20,000 acre-feet transferred to Lake Atoka, and total electrical costs to move water just over $336,000; trustees asked no substantive follow-up questions beyond thanks.
Ron Butler delivered the operations report covering the last six months of work at McGee Creek, citing monthly work orders, rainfall shortfalls and detailed water-movement figures.
Butler said the authority generated 100 to 170 work orders per month during the period and noted a rainfall deficit of roughly 3.5 inches compared with the expected amount for that interval. He said the lake peaked in August and the system began pumping August 5 to deliver Atoka Lake water; pumping through February drew the lake down about 8 feet, and as of the morning of the meeting the lake had recovered to about 4 feet below normal.
Butler reported total water pumped to Lake Atoka of just over 20,000 acre-feet and annual totals delivered to the water-resources board of roughly 5.9 billion gallons used and 5.3 billion gallons transferred to Atoka Reservoir. He said rural water district usage and local sales figures included 570 acre-feet for Rural Water District 4 and 484 acre-feet for the City of Atoka. The total electrical cost to move the water was reported at just over $336,000. Butler also noted the authority’s required year-round quality release of 11 cubic feet per second (CFS), which amounted to approximately 2.6 billion gallons for the reporting period.
Trustees thanked Butler for the update; Browning introduced the next agenda item, the capital-projects status report from Mark Long.
