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  8      12000    447.9     13800    642.5     14000    1108.7
Aug  9      12000    447.8     13800    642.5     14000    1108.9
Aug 10      10000    447.9     13800    642.5     14000    1109.1
Aug 11       9000    448.2     13200    642.5     14000    1109.3
Aug 12      12200    448.0     13400    642.5     14000    1109.5
Aug 13      12000    447.9     13800    642.4     12000    1109.7
Aug 14      12000    447.8     13800    642.2     11400    1110.0

Average     11300              13700              13300

Aug 15 to
Aug 21      10100    448.0     13100    642.0     13300    1111.5

Aug 22 to
Aug 28       9600    448.1     12600    642.2     13300    1112.9

Current Lake Powell storage is 18,580 thousand acre-feet (KAF)
(76 percent of capacity).
Lake Mead storage is 12,204 KAF (47 percent of capacity).
Total system storage is 39,312 KAF (66 percent of capacity).
Lake Powell elevation is 3,660.67 feet.

The preliminary observed April-July forecast for the Colorado
River is 12.92 million acre-feet or 163 percent of average.

Yesterday, the average Colorado River flows were 1,320 cfs near
the Yuma Fourth Avenue Bridge and 1,529 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 08-Aug-2011 are expected to be 1,369 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.