Little
2. Sinks to the Elbow(Lower Little)
March 3, 2006
Trip Report
| Reporter | Kirk Eddlemon |
The below comment about taking the online gauge with a grain of salt is true, but not due to any technical error. The reason is that the online gauge is 25 square miles downstream and that the watershed triples at that point due to all the valley tribs coming in. If the little is at 3.3 and the online gauge is at 500, it must have just rained and the bubble hasn't reached the gauge. Sometimes the Little at Maryville can be at 2000 and the little only at a low level if it was mostly valley rain(rare but it happens).
The key to not getting skunked is to look at the whole picture. How much rain fell where and when and how dry was it prior. Streamflow gauges are but one small component in predicting streamflow.
Besides, there is an online gauge for the Townsend site now anyway:
Copy and paste if you have to.