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Explain Clear Creek

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:49 pm
by Mr.DeadLegs
AWA is showing 1CFS is that true? What the hades is 1 CFS. dam that would be sad. Is it really that bad? Where is the water this weekend. Is the upper green going to run? Harrison you there?

Help I need water.

Trey

Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 3:38 am
by noobopenboater
The gauge is true, I live within an hour of clear creek its extremely hot and dry (today is first rain in a few weeks). In the summer it hardly ever runs, there was one or two days in July that the bsf was runnable, clr creek only rose to 170'ish but was down after a day. That guage has been reading single digits most of the summer. :cry:

Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:35 pm
by philcanoe
A picture is worth a thousand words...

http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html

To bad my place if almost center of the deep brown. It's starting to looks like Texas normally does in summer. If you'd really like to see what low is a:

http://alabamawhitewater.com/flowpage/

LRC had been at 1 CFS for a while.

We've got great levels up here!

Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 3:09 pm
by Mike W.
Forcast is for 2,200cfs this weekend, but they normally run a couple of hundred cfs higher than the forcast. That'll be a good level for the wave at Weldon.
http://www.dom.com/about/companies/ncpower/flow.jsp

Here's what it looks like at 2,410cfs:
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/wh20crazy/a ... 48769387/3

Yesterday afternoon we caught a decent spike. They took it from 2,600cfs to 13,900 :P Big fun for a couple of hours while it's coming up :D
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nc/nwis/uv?cb ... o=02080500

Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 4:16 am
by sdbrassfield
Thats where I will be Saturday and Sunday...

Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 4:22 am
by Mike W.
sdbrassfield wrote:That where I will be tomorrow and Sunday...
I'll see ya here :D It'll probably be crowded. I'll be on the wave both days too :P

Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 4:27 am
by sdbrassfield
Mike, I may have some interest from two others to do the midnight run? That still a possibility ?

Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 4:19 pm
by Mike W.
We can run it tonight. I'd like to have a minimum of 3 boats. Everyone MUST be comfortable running Weldon in the dark. If anyone is not comfortable with this, they're not ready to run the river at night. Swimmers are not invited. I'm not trying to exclude anyone, but recovering swimmers & their stuff in the dark is no fun. Drop a carbon paddle & you'll never find it.

I'm on the way to Weldon now. We'll talk there.

man, what a sworve ball this turn into

Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 2:30 am
by oc1paddlr
thanks again mr deadlegs!