I think the Corps is keeping a couple spill gates on JPP open slightly to provide minimum flow in the tailwater and oxygenate the water. The oxygen is pretty much depleted from the deep water above the dam, so they have to sluice water through the spill gates. Otherwise, when they generate, the water that's coming through the generator has no oxygen and it's intolerable for a lot of the fish species in the tailwater.
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