any minute now.

mudhen · Senior Member

any minute now.

mattymcfly · Member

The creek went from 245 to 275 the few hours I was there on Thursday. It's kind of scary how unnoticeable the change of flows are out there.

paul · Veteran Member

Hi Mat, Was this during the daytime?

mattymcfly · Member

Yeah I checked it in the morning and it read 245 CFS. When I stopped in Winters after fishing I checked it again at 275.

Mike42 · Veteran Member

Look back at the water flow for March 5, 2016. At 12:00 the flow was about 110 cfs and it shot up to 700 cfs at 22:00 and then back down to 85 cfs by 18:00 on March 7th. One gigantic flush!

paul · Veteran Member

Shouldn't be happening during the day though!!!

Clayton · Member

That 700cfs boost in March wasn't a dam release, I believe that was all storm runoff. I've never experience a major flow increase from the dam mid day that made for anything dangerous. 245 to 275 is pretty much unnoticeable. I'd like to think SID knows there could be people fishing during the day and not to bump the flows from 100 to 700cfs without any type of warning alarm in place. With that being said, it's getting to that time of year when the flows will go way up so be careful out there.

SK60 · Senior Member

As I posted recently, that large increase in flows was due to heavy rain in the Cold Creek Canyon watershed. That's when all the mud was deposited at the mouth Cold Creek. That's when the Creek was blown out for at least a week. You will never see that kind of flow increase from the dam releases. However, right now the agricultural flow increases are mobilizing the silt at the mouth of Cold Creek and the Creek is again murky.

SID will never jump flows that much upward in 24 hours. If you look at the USGS charts they do incremental bumps, usually not more than 150 CFS in 24 hours.

-- Edited by SK60 on Tuesday 19th of April 2016 11:29:11 AM