Monday, January 20, 2020

Rez Update

The Pearl River Valley Water Supply District issued the following statement.



The National Weather Service on Monday said the Pearl River crested early Sunday at 34.34 feet at Jackson and is expected to continue slowly falling through the week.

Pearl River Valley Water Supply District officials also announced that Barnett Reservoir had crested at 298.2  Sunday and is falling. Both the lake and the river had Jackson crested lower that originally predicted.

At 9:15 a.m. Monday, the reservoir was at 297.84 feet above mean sea level, and PRVWSD began reducing flows through the dam to match falling river inflows into the 33,000-acre lake. All Pearl River gauges north of the reservoir are quickly falling and inflows were down to 39,480 cubic feet per second from a peak of nearly 60,000.

During Monday’s conference call between the National Weather Service, the Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and PRVWSD, officials began looking at preparing for the next expected weather front forecast to arrive in the Pearl River basin overnight on Thursday.

“This event shows the depth of cooperation between PRVWSD, the City of Jackson, Hinds County, Rankin County, the National Weather Service, and other agencies in helping prevent what could have been a major catastrophe,” said John Sigman, PRVWSD general manager. “At 60,000 cubic feet per second, this would have been the third highest flood event on record at Jackson.”

Posted by Kingfish at 1:30 PM

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

"depth of cooperation;" nice one.

January 20, 2020 at 1:57 PM
Anonymous said...

a conference call among the national weather service , the lower Mississippi river forecast station, (which is kind of odd as the pearl river doesn't flow into the mississippi] , and the bozos with the PRVWSD and the us army corps of engineers? ill bet that call sounded like a cross between a chinese fire drill and a rerun of that talk show called THE VIEW , featuring all those ignorant fat women. i hope nobody out there is relying on any advise handed out by that group of dunderhead government bureaucrats .



January 20, 2020 at 2:22 PM
Anonymous said...

I am very thankful a major flood event was avoided. I appreciate the PRVWD and all others involved and thank them very much for their cooperation together. Now lets get this One Lake or Two Lake plan started!

January 20, 2020 at 2:39 PM
Clinton Can't Suicide Us All said...

It's water under the bridge. Move on...nothing to see here.

Oh wait, the Magnolia Rifle and Pistol Club is under water.

Do something, quick!

January 20, 2020 at 3:54 PM
Kennuff Wuld Lak to Maik a Pernt.. said...

I have no issue with the coordination among and between various state and federal agencies. There's no requirement that the Pearl flow into the Mississippi in order to marshal as many relevant agencies as can be rounded up.

The only problem I saw in the text was that the City of Jackson was involved. At best, they should have been allowed to sit in the bleachers and take notes. At worst, they had a speaking part.

January 20, 2020 at 5:22 PM
Anonymous said...

A lot of sphincters involved here..

January 20, 2020 at 8:02 PM
Anonymous said...

Sigman should retire and languish in that fat PERS check. He long ago plateaued out and exceeded the peter principal.

January 21, 2020 at 3:40 PM

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