{"id":1558,"date":"2024-11-21T21:35:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T21:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2024-11-21T22:22:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T22:22:04","slug":"2024-11-21-conditions-update-and-outflow-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/2024\/11\/21\/2024-11-21-conditions-update-and-outflow-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"2024.11.21 Conditions Update and Outflow Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over the past week the Winnipeg River Basin has received significant amounts of rainfall. This precipitation has helped increase inflows to the major lakes which are back in the normal range for this time of year. With higher inflows, outflows will continue to be increased to draw down the lakes over the winter and meet flow requirements along the Winnipeg River.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Untitled-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1559\" style=\"width:489px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Untitled-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Untitled-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Untitled-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Untitled-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Untitled-2048x1536.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The current level of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/lwcb.ca\/pdf\/LakeoftheWoods.pdf\">Lake of the Woods<\/a>&nbsp;is 322.68 m (1058.66 ft), a 30<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;percentile level within the normal range for this time of year. The average lake level increased 2 cm (1 in) over the last week and is expected to remain relatively stable increasing or decreasing by 1 cm (&lt;0.5 in) depending on precipitation. Lake of the Woods authorized outflow is 225 m<sup>3<\/sup>\/s. Additional outflow increases are planned to drawdown the lake over the winter period and meet flow requirements on the Winnipeg River. Lake of the Woods outflow will increase as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>250 m<sup>3<\/sup>\/s Saturday November 23<sup>rd<\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>275 m<sup>3<\/sup>\/s Monday November 25<sup>th<\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>300 m<sup>3<\/sup>\/s Wednesday November 27<sup>th<\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of these outflow increases will cause levels along the Winnipeg River to increase as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>5 cm (1.5 in) directly downstream of the Norman Dam<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 cm (1 in) above the Dalles<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The water level at Minaki will not be impacted by these outflow changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The current level of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/lwcb.ca\/pdf\/LacSeul.pdf\">Lac Seul<\/a>&nbsp;is 355.98 m (1167.91 ft), a 20<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;percentile level for this time of year. The lake level decreased 2 cm (1 in) and is expected to decrease by 4 cm to 5 cm (1.5 to 2 in) over the next week. Lac Seul authorized outflow is 300 m<sup>3<\/sup>\/s with a planned increase to 325 m<sup>3<\/sup>\/s Thursday November 21<sup>st<\/sup> and a tentative increase to 350 m<sup>3<\/sup>\/s Wednesday November 27<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past week the Winnipeg River Basin has received significant amounts of rainfall. This precipitation has helped increase inflows to the major lakes which are back in the normal range for this time of year. With higher inflows, outflows will continue to be increased to draw down the lakes over the winter and meet&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/2024\/11\/21\/2024-11-21-conditions-update-and-outflow-changes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2024.11.21 Conditions Update and Outflow Changes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}