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Why would they up the rate to 300cubic feet per second and then drop it down to 70 in the span of a day?

 



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probably just a glitch from the reporting station. I've seen some huge jumps like that in the past while fishing the creek but it's been many years.

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It's been dumping rain. 300 isn't a whole lot. They probably ramped it down due to the down poor.

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Flow rate is measured near access 1. Base rate from dam release this time of year is around 100 CFS to protect the spawning beds from going dry. Every time there is heavy rain, the flows spike and the creek often gets muddy. It should be blown out now, as it was end of last week, by mud flows from Cold Creek which drains the Wragg Fire burned area. That is a huge watershed with powerful flows resulting from heavy rains. SID did not ramp flows up, but may have adjusted them below 100 because of the storm.



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