Green Peter will reach “empty” by mid-October at the rates it is receiving and releasing water.
That means the reservoir will reach the minimum “conservation pool,” which is still above the amount necessary to produce some power.
“July was one of the driest inflow months ever recorded,” U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hydrologist Karl Kanbergs of the Northwest Division Office in Portland said. The lake was used in the spring to bolster river levels in…