Day 10 of the Bureau of Reclamation's Section 6E invocation runs the planned 660,000-acre-foot to 1-million-acre-foot Flaming Gorge release flow against an August Lake Powell power-pool cliff that has not moved. [1] Reclamation's April 24-Month Study still projects Powell falling below the 3,490-foot minimum power pool by August absent intervention; the Flaming Gorge transfer is designed to add roughly 2.48 million acre-feet and lift the reservoir back toward 3,500 feet by April 2027. [1] Wednesday's paper named the Page Utility GM's disclosure that Glen Canyon's share of city power has fallen from 40% to 20% as the first household-bill artifact of the engineering threshold; today the Colorado River Authority of Utah's running mediation framework with the Upper Division states becomes the diplomatic layer over that receipt. [2] California, Arizona, and Nevada — the Lower Basin states whose Mead inflow drops by 1.48 million acre-feet — have not yet published their own Page-style disclosures, but Reclamation has said the upstream cuts could reduce Hoover hydropower by an additional 40% as early as this fall. The August cliff is unchanged; the political layer is now the news.

-- DARA OSEI, London