What's with the water levels?

Four of us (NH - Maine - Vermont) came up last weekend.  Needless to say, fly fishing was difficult (1800 on Fri & 3600 on Sat).  Upper fly was not an option (for us anyway).
 
Is there a good reason why so much water has to be released on weekends?  I hope so, because they are certainly discouraging us from any more springtime trips this year.

The river floods EVERY spring- Its just a matter of time before it happens. The problem is the size of the Res. compared to the drainage that flows into it. The Res.'s can fill very quickly and reach capacity. When this happens they have no choice but to release the water.

I cannot explain the extreme fluctuation this year of rising high and dropping low but- The fact is- If the resivoirs were bigger and held more water, we would not get the fluctuation that we have to deal with.

May have something to do with the DAM repair.  Not sure it ever was finished last fall.

It may also have something to do with the snowpack in the Tug Hill core,  Remember that 12 feet of snow that Oswego got back in February?  It made all the national news shows.  Well, they got more in Redfield, at the upper end of the reservoir, and even more further into the hill.  Last week, the snowmobile clubs went out with their magnet truck to run over the roads and trails to pick up the tire eating scuds that fall off the snowmobiles, and they couldn't get through on the Salmon River Road as there was as much as 4 feet of snow still on the road in places that are shaded.  There's still snow in the woods, (even down in the Finger Lakes) and its been cold at night, but it was prettty warm during the days lately. When the snow melts it runs to the river, and that becomes big runoff when the north and east come together. As far as making the reservoir larger, lets do it downstream where it will flood your favorite fly fihing water, rather than up on the hill where it drowns some world class brook trout habitat, a whole bunch of people's homes and camps, and allows the water to warm up even more.  I think the reservoirs are quite large enough now!  But streams on the hill didn't get named the Mad River, Roaring Brook, etc, for their summer flows.  They've been carrying huge runoff flows forever, and its just something you have to accept as part of the territory if you want to fish this part of the country this time of the year.
 
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Beedhead-
Pretty fair assesment, but that's the world we live in now.
I don't fish the high levels because I don't feel comfortable. I prefer to wade a little and those levels make that dangerous at best.

Steel- would be nice to chat with them about it, but I for one have no idea how to talk to a real person. I emailed Brookfield H.Q., but they're in Canada.
Speaking of Canada I watched Canadian Bacon last night (again). Great movie.

Why should they post a reason? It's a dam power co--we're lucky to get what we get----One used to have to be carefull--now it seems they do most of the changes at night.

They have the power, we need the power. To them PR is BS.