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April 28, 2023

Perfect Spring Snow Melt Flows

ReporterClinton Begley
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We had an excellent 1,000cfs on the Pat Welch gauge, and 5.21 feet reporting on the NOAA gauge all on snow melt. It felt similar to 1100 or 1200 during the winter rains. The gauge is downstream from tidbits so in the winter it is influenced more by low elevation rain than in the spring when all the water is coming from the top. At the same gauge reading at Tidbits, it can feel very different depending on the season. All wood was passable in the boat, though we did have one person swim and self rescue due to a pin on the teeter-totter log in pickup sticks. It was Bill Field's birthday and we had an excellent crew with good flows.