Releases from Davis and Parker dams will vary from about 4,500
cubic feet per second (cfs) to 24,000 cfs during a 24-hour period.
River levels will vary during the 24-hour periods with the higher
levels coinciding with periods of peak hydroelectric power
generation.  Levels below the dams are usually highest during the
afternoon and early evening.
Average daily releases may vary in response to changing conditions.

Average daily releases and midnight lake elevations for the week,
as well as anticipated averages for the following 2 weeks, are
scheduled as follows:


            Parker             Davis              Hoover         
            Dam       Lake     Dam       Lake     Dam       Lake 
            Average   Havasu   Average   Mohave   Average   Mead 
            Release   Elev.    Release   Elev.    Release   Elev.
Date        (cfs)     (ft)     (cfs)     (ft)     (cfs)     (ft) 
----        -----     ----     -----     ----     -----     ---- 
Aug  1      11500    448.1     13800    643.1     13300    1107.2
Aug  2      11500    448.1     14000    643.0     13300    1107.5
Aug  3      11000    448.1     14000    642.9     13300    1107.7
Aug  4      10000    448.2     14000    642.8     13300    1107.9
Aug  5      11500    448.2     14000    642.8     13300    1108.1
Aug  6      11500    448.1     14000    642.7     13300    1108.3
Aug  7      11500    448.1     14000    642.6     13300    1108.5

Average     11200              14000              13300

Aug  8 to
Aug 14      10500    448.1     13300    642.4     13300    1110.0

Aug 15 to
Aug 21      10100    448.1     13100    642.3     13300    1111.5

Current Lake Powell storage is 18,596 thousand acre-feet (KAF)
(76 percent of capacity).
Lake Mead storage is 12,084 KAF (47 percent of capacity).
Total system storage is 39,201 KAF (66 percent of capacity).
Lake Powell elevation is 3,660.79 feet.

The April-July forecast for the Colorado River is 12.6 million
acre-feet or 159 percent of average.

Yesterday, the average Colorado River flows were 740 cfs near
the Yuma Fourth Avenue Bridge and 1,773 cfs at the Northerly
International Boundary.  The average release from Painted Rock
Dam was 0 cfs and Alamo Dam was 50 cfs.  The Morelos Dam
diversions for the week of 01-Aug-2011 are expected to be
1,437 cfs. 

ALL RIVER USERS should remember that fluctuating river flows may
conceal or create natural hazards such as moving sandbars,
gravel bars, unstable riverbanks, floating or submerged debris,
or other unfamiliar obstacles.

Caution should be exercised while using the river between
Davis Dam and the Mexican Border at San Luis, Arizona.