Dan

I hiked this section this past spring after a period of impressive rainfall hoping to observe water topping the dam but no such luck. The damkeeper informed me that this rarely ever happens...maybe once a year. Scour lines in the gorge indicate flows may have reached the 500-700 cfs on a previous overflow. This would make for a very dangerous situation on a very small stream topping out at 250 fpm. I have waded/fished the gorge about 1.5 miles upstream of the powerhouse and noted a couple what I would guess would be IIIs or IVs and runnable levels. The gradient in the lower part of the gorge is only about 80 fpm. As Jon mentioned earlier, the real meat is within 1.5 miles of the dam where it tops out at around 250 fpm.