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Upstream storage dams hold back the heavy spring and summer snowmelt runoffs. Then, in the fall and winter when streamflows would ordinarily be low, water is gradually released to sustain levels of power generation at site and downstream run-of-the-river dams.

Diagram of Storage Dam
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