Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers
on Civil Works Activities
Fiscal Year 1979
Department of the Army Corps of Engineers
Extract Report of Walla Walla District

Scheduling Flood Control Reservoir Operations

Functional regulation of non-Corps projects was accomplished under several authorities. Regulation of Palisades, Little Wood, and Anderson Ranch Reservoirs in Idaho, and Bully Creek, Warm Springs, Agency Valley, and Mason Reservoirs in Oregon, was accomplished under Section 7, Flood Control Act of 1944, and coordinated with the Bureau of Reclamation.

Flood control operations at Jackson Lake, Arrowrock Reservoir, and Lake Lowell were in accordance with formal agreements with the WPRS. Regulation of American Falls, Owyhee, Magic, Mackay, Cascade, and Deadwood Reservoirs, Idaho, for flood control was accomplished under informal agreements. Brownlee, Oxbow, and Hells Canyon Reservoirs provided flood control regulation in accordance with provisions of the Federal Power Commission license to Idaho Power Company.

Fiscal year costs were $95,700.