2021 Swan Falls Technical Working Group Presented by Ethan Geisler February 23, 2021 2020 Provisional AADF 16,000 Minimum Streamflow

-- nr Murphy Minimum of Record (1981- 2019)

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- Snake River at Milner Gage

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Flow 2,000 Flood Control Aug IPC Storage IPC Storage 0 Review of Changes to 2021 Swan Falls AADF

• Utilizing CJ Strike at Boat Dock nr CJ Strike Dam (13171495) instead of CJ Strike Dam Headwater data (13171550) • Utilizing 15 minute data for all reservoir datasets now – CJ Strike Reservoir Data

• CJ Strike Dam at Boat Dock nr CJ Strike Dam (13171495)

• CJ Strike at Cottonwood Park nr Bruneau, ID (13170340)

• Snake River at Loveridge Bridge nr Bruneau, ID (13157350) – , Bliss Dam, and are already 15 min datasets • Swan Falls Dam Lag – Lag time changed from two hours to zero hours (no lag) – Lag times from other reservoirs have been kept the same at this time ~A LIQ Deportment of 13 170340 JD'/ \I 11 Water Resources Cottonwood Pa rk

Sampling Interval "" 5 min

Averaging Interval = 30 seconds (12 samples per !.ccond)

Timc:;~ric!. ,\~ii.able tor AJ\DF Power’s Proposed Sfati~tiea! computat ion performed in Aquarius: t hat crea:e:; a 15mi n mean value fro m t he Sm!n sample i collected Change to Data Collection r1 I l n1-1 er1e,_.

13157350 • AADF currently uses the CJ Strike 15 Loveridge Bridge minute datasets

– Current datasets sample every 5 minutes, ,l,•1•~"'t !nt."n.>t :::: l h iO h 11hhl<>r1< IIU~ ;m ,rn •l it•"'' p llm l'lln~ stnl"i'f· Mo...• lc,n11 ~n d i't;,..,..ofta n i1 ii: JlU,.prlg c "f '"nc, c,r: t ~" m c;a£"•J ·ed prc.i:~•Jt a ::liff..-o-.:e be.two;,-, th:o ln t eve c a ad 11;,.., lof'l8it t ab , ur,1:il th;, pn;iaurawill t,, rtabk . Th,;;ra ii 1 cti.a Iv n a­ average to the 15 minutes ~.-cra;;:s:,-...ilLc output. n-.~l ;)!:f: ~ i :fy;i,luc ~ft~r :he :>-'•&c prc,cc,clu~ w il bc:t hcc o,.lputsn LC .

l tall»lc.tl computarlon PtJ1orme CI tn AQuarlusttt at cre-.i,es a 1:>T ln ni,ean ·,auerromt he 5mln ;llm:>Es • is proposing to change r n ll••rtafl • · l'fl• 9'f "' data collection from 5 minute sampling to 15 minute sampling

13171495 Boat Dock • CJ Strike datasets will still be available

for the 15 minute time-step Sampling lntP.rwll == S min

Av~raging lnt~rval = .~n s~rnncis (17 sc:mples per second)

Timeseries .Available for AAOF ~min sample,; are availabfe in Aquarius: Swan Falls2021 AADF AADF Flow Flows at at Snake Snake River River near nr Murphy Murphy 16,000 Minimum Streamflow

- Snake River nr Murphy Minimum of Record {1981- 2020) 14,000 - Snake River nr Murphy Median of Record (1981- 2020) - snake River nr Murphy Gage

- AADF- 3 Day Average 12,000 - Snake River at Milner Gage

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