Island Creek

I finally got to experience Island with some real water in it (1.35'), today 3/25/09. All of my previous runs had been low (0.4'-0.6'). Two people put-on about an hour before we did and reported 1.7'. They saw 1.8' before they set shuttle.

Now for the correlation with the Crab Orchard rain gauge. It has been a pretty good spring in ETN. There had been several good soakings that got many plateau runs running, some at high levels. But there had been two weeks with little to no rain before we put on Island today. Three quarters of an inch had fallen throughout the day yesterday, and then another 3/4 of an inch fell between 4 and 8 am this morning. The 1.8' reading was roughly 4 pm and the we put on at about 6 pm.

The Crab Orchard Rain gauge: http://tinyurl.com/knkot7