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Schedule:

Last update: Friday, July 03, 2009 at 10:43 PM EDT
Current time: Friday, July 03, 2009 at 10:50 PM EDT

On Friday, July 03 Tuxedo hydro station will run at 100% capacity from 7:00am to 5:00pm.

Operational schedules are determined daily. This schedule is subject to change at any time due to changing electrical demand, weather conditions and lake levels.

Three day release forecasts are now available from Duke Energy: Duke Energy's Scheduled Flow Release Page. Note that Duke Power's release forecasts have limitations.

The current three day schedule is as follows:
07/03/2009: Release from 7:00am to 5:00pm 100%.
07/04/2009: Release from 7:00am to 12:00n 100%.
07/05/2009: Release from 7:00am to 12:00n 100%.

Lake Summit:

Lake Summit Level at 7:47 am 7/3/2009: 99.5 feet

Most Recent Lake Summit Level (22:27 pm 7/3/2009): 99.1 feet
Seasonal target range: 97.5 feet

Weather:

Current:
Fair and 66 °F at the Asheville airport at 9:54pm EDT July 3

Revised Digital Forecast:
Forecasts for Asheville, NC and WNC South and West of Asheville. MIN/MAX is the forecasted nighttime minimum or daytime maximum temperature. When it is reported as three numbers, the middle number is the average, the others the lowest and highest values for the region.

	Fri/Sat 6pm-6am	Sat 6am-6pm	Sat/Sun 6pm-6am	Sun 6am-6pm	Sun/Mon 6pm-6am
Probability of Percipitation (POP)	0%	10%	50%	50%	50%
Amount of Percipitation (QPF)	0"	0"	0.06-0.13"	0.10"	0.10"
Min (or max) temperature (MIN/MAX)	53 56 59°	74 82 86°	60 63 65°	77 80 81°	63 65 68°

Forecast last updated at 10:19pm EDT on Friday, July 3, 2009

Descriptive Forecast:
Overnight: Mostly clear, with a low around 58. Light north wind.
Independence Day: Mostly sunny, with a high near 83. Calm wind becoming south between 7 and 10 mph.
Saturday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 64. West wind between 5 and 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Sunday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 81. West wind between 5 and 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Sunday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 67. North wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 82. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Monday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 63. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Tuesday: Partly sunny, with a high near 80.
Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 61.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 80.
Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 62.
Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 84.
Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 63.
Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 86.

Forecast last updated at 10:16pm EDT on July 3, 2009

Beta:

This page is a service of boatingbeta.com using data provided by Duke Energy and the National Weather Service.

The schedule is updated throughout the day using a cron job and a program written in Perl that parses the Duke Energy Scheduled Flow Release Page and then automatically re-writes this page. The schedule is subject to change.

The water is released just upstream of the Upper Green put-in, takes about 2 hours to reach the Green River Narrows put-in, and about 4-4.5 hours to reach the Lower Green put-in.

The current Lake Summit level, current weather and the weather forecasts are updated hourly using a series cron jobs. The cron jobs retrieve the lake level information from Duke Energy's Lake Levels page, the current weather and descriptive weather forecast from the National Weather Service's Henderson County, NC page, and the revised digital weather forecast (or RDF) from the NWS's Greenville Spartanburg RDF page, then use regular expressions to parse the pages and extract the information included on this page.

Releases are more likely when Lake Summit is near its target range and/or rain is expected. The target range is currently 97.5 feet, as described in the Annual Range section of Duke Energy's Lake Summit website. Lake levels can fluctuate as much as +/- 2 feet daily depending on the weather and the amount of power generated. Under drought conditions water is occasionally released even though the lake is below its target level. This is done to maintain downstream flows.

News:

(10/26/2008 UPDATE) 2008 Green Race Registration
It's time to register for the Green Race. It will make the organizers' lives much easier if you do so online. It will also be less expensive for you: registration is free online but will cost you $50 (to be donated to the Green River Access Fund) if you wait to register in person.

Online registration is open until Thursday, October 30th at 5pm EST (this is a change!); the first racer sets off at High Noon November 1st.

Use this link to register: 2008 Green Race Registration

Use this link to see who's already registered: Green Race 2008: Who's Firing It Up?

(10/05/2008) 2008 Green River Narrows Race
The 2008 race will be held Saturday, November 1st. The first racer will be off at 12 noon and reach Gorilla about 12:04. Directions to Gorilla can be found on the Green Narrows page. Additional details will be posted when available. While you're waiting, check out all the past race results.

(11/17/2008 UPDATE) Duke Energy Now Provides Tuxedo Release Forecasts Online!
In early 2008 Duke Energy began providing three day release forecasts online. Two glitchs emerged. first, the messages included the number of generators scheduled but not the load. A few months later this was fixed. The second: the online and recorded messages sometimes differed. Sadly, the recorded messages were eliminated early in the summer so we no longer have Frank's message as a backup to the online message. It appears, however, that the accuracy of the messages have improved. Here's a link to Duke Energy's Scheduled Flow Release Page.

(09/25/2007) The Top 12 Reason to Race the Green Are . . .
This fall will be the 12th Annual Green Race -- "The Dirty Dozen." Email Jason Hale (Email Jason) and me (email Chris) your top 12 reasons to race the Green Race and I'll add them to the list below.
- Edgar:
  1. My heros do it
  2. Gives me a reason to keep my long boat
  3. To beat John Grace
  4. Tommy might get sick that day and I could win!
  5. Gives me a reason to run Go Left and Gorrilla
  6. Chris Gragtmans said I could
  7. With all those people there you will definitely get some good video of your beatdown
- Steve Ruth:
  1. You need a low stress run the week after the Lord of the Fork Race!
  2. No key required
- GRITS:
  1. Have a really good time
  2. Buy a burrito from a man-size chicken
  3. Have a chance to be JACKED UP in front of 500 spectators
  4. Win the race in front of 500 spectators
- drippinwet:
  1. If you do it right it will be over in under 5 minutes
  2. Most good drugs are still illegal
- granolapaddler:
  1. Pain Is Temporary, Glory Is Forever
  2. When else do you have some of the best boaters in the world setting safety for you?
- Adriene Levknecht:
  1. Because it's family!
  2. For the party afterwards
  3. Ligit reason to get in shape
  4. Dawn patrol, must I say more?
  5. It's the most well known river in the south east
  6. Rolling around the corner at Gorilla and seeing hundreds of people on the side of the river (most of them with a cold beer waiting for you)
  7. There is no better reason to sit in a Tornado
  8. It's called the magnificent mile for a reason
  9. Good time to be outside, next to a bomber river
  10. So my mom can hike down and watch the festivities
  11. Famous kayakers all over the place
  12. All the hot girls standing at gorilla ;-)
- Get to use your hairboater ID card (roscoepwavetrain)
- Women, riches and fame will never be the prize (Julio)
- When else do you get to wear body armor on the river and look so cool doing it!!!?? (Terrell Anderson)
- Prove once and for all I am now a class III boater (squirtboater)
- The Ocoee doesn't run in November (southeastcreekin)
- Racing is easier than walking in and out to watch (Brad Roberts)
- You get to hang out with all of your paddlin budz and talk a ton of shit (Boaterbox)
- Because it's there (Geoff Calhoun)

(08/15/2007) Tornados On Their Way
A run of Prijon Tornados, for many the Green Race boat of choice, will be arriving at Overflow Outfitters in September. They're all Mango. You can pay half and purchase them for $950 or pay $1050 when they arrive. Call Kevin at 678-450-9455 to order yours. Overflow is getting about 15 and half are already sold.

(4/9/2007) 2007 Gallimore Road Access Update
The current options for paddlers who wish to put-on or take-off at the Gallimore Road Access are:
1. Have a friend drop you off or pick you up.
2. Drop off your gear and return to Big Hungry Road to park. Then walk in (or out).
3. Use the Upper Green put-in.
4. Buy a key to the Gallimore Road private parking area. Keys can be purchased at either Liquidlogic (765 Crest Road, Flat Rock, NC 28773) or Green River Adventures (1734 Holbert Cove Road, Saluda, NC 28773). You can purchase either a new key for $60.00 (both locations) or turn in a 2006 key and purchase a 2007 key for $45.00 (Liquidlogic only). The 2007 key will be good starting April 1, 2007 and will open the gate until the lock is changed next year. Your $60 (or $45) payment is tax-deductable. If you wish to buy a key and don't have time to wait for it to arrive in the mail, call Woody at Liquidlogic (828-698-5778) to make arrangements.
5. PAYING BY THE DAY IS NO LONGER AN OPTION. Please don't ask a key holder to let you in -- either buy a key, have a friend drop you off or pick you up, drop off your gear, return to Big Hungry Road, park and walk back, or use the Upper Green put-in.
6. DO NOT PARK IN THE TWO PARKING SPOTS OUTSIDE THE GATE! They are reserved for people fishing and hunting on the Green River gamelands. You stand a good risk of getting ticketed and towed if you park there!

(4/5/2007) Support the Green River Access Fund!
Support convenient access to the Upper Green take-out / Green Narrows put-in: buy an "Operational Schedules Are Determined Daily" bumper sticker for $10! On sale at Diamond Brand Outdoors (both locations) and Rock Creek Outfitters (Down Under and Ocoee locations). All proceeds donated to the Green River Access Fund (765 Crest Road, Flat Rock, NC 28773).
(12/04/2006) News from Katie Hilleke
To the Green River Crew, who has so generously thrown in to help me beat up on cancer:
I wanted to let everyone know that from the bottom of my heart, I am so grateful to everyone for all their help and support. It means the world to me to have so much support coming from the whitewater community, and especially from all my friends on the Green River. I am going to beat this thing soon and get back home to the Green, but the journey is not an easy one to face. Most kayakers I know are experts at staring down challenges and thriving during situations that could paralyze anyone else with fear. They are living examples of the skill and attitude needed to fight cancer and be victorious: determination, courage, a positive attitude, and a willingness to help your friends when the odds are stacked against them. I was blessed to be able to gain some of these skills by watching you all, and they have been vital in fighting this battle.

It is great not to be stressing too much over the medical bills that continue to roll in, but the feeling of love and encouragement that your act of generosity has given me far outweighs the valuable monetary support.

Throughout this journey, I have several times compared having cancer, to running a challenging river. At the "take-out", I am sure I will look back and know that this has been more of a gift than a burden.

Thank you so much for the positive thoughts and encouragement and your extremely generous gift. I send out to all of you lots of love!

I am so proud to be part of this family!

Katie

ps. I will be sporting my Green Race "trophy" from Todd Graph at Chemo on Friday. (I think it must have been for winning the new devision of Fastest Hiker on Chemo) :-). It has lots of good juju from all of you!

pps. The account set up for me by my friend, Vickie Martin, in Alabama is through a church here in Birmingham and is therefor tax deductible. If anyone needs receipts, please email me and I will send you one online.

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