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Hi, my name is Charlie Ester.
I am the Manager of Water Resource Operations
here at the Salt River Project.
And my responsibility is to operate the
reservoir system for SRP.
Roosevelt Lake is actually 101% full.
That's into the flood control space.
We have to release the water because
it's actually higher than we are allowed
to store water in the conservation area.
Today at Roosevelt Lake,
we are releasing 5,500 cubic feet per second water.
That's enough water to fill 2
average-sized swimming pools per second.
We will have water releases here in
the Phoenix area at least through April [2010]
and possibly into May.
I'm really happy that our reservoirs are
full and that's, it's great to see all this water running
through the Phoenix area.
But I sure wish we could save it, to use it later.