Someone tell me why the PC flows fluctuate so much.

iamamultitasker · Senior Member

Someone tell me why the PC flows fluctuate so much.

Rossflyguy · Senior Member

If you look at the triangles below the flows, that's the average it usually is. It's higher then normal which I think makes for better fishing.

Otter · Senior Member

Sometimes the water agency needs to work on equipment and gates and needs to make sure things are working properly. They will drop the flows to work on equipment. The good thing as RFG has said is the flows have been on average high this year. It has actually opened up additional spawning habitat during the winter.

SK60 · Senior Member

Flow fluctuations are controlled by water needs of SID customers. High flows for crop irrigation and swimming pools. Low flows when the customers are mainly cities. SID/SCWA do not waste a drop of water and we were lucky this dry winter that they helped protect the spawners at #3 by keeping flows up higher than normal. They were excersizing good stewardship of our favorite resource. It looks like we had a banner spawn, thanks in part, to them.