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Direct River Flow Lines - CALIFORNIA

Most popular flow lines for California Boaters. Flow recommendations which follow are for 13-14' or larger rafts. IK's and hard shell kayaks can get run at much smaller flows down to 300 cfs or "fish flow".

California Stream Flows
Recreational Flows
USGS Gages
South Fork American River Flows
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryF?CBR for upper and gorge runs, run between 1000-7000 cfs
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryF?NFD for Chamberlain run, run between 1200-2200 cfs, above 2300 the river is pushy, run Chamberlains right side.
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryF?DRF
S. Fork Eel (Pillsbury Run), Contact Sonoma County Water (707)523-1070 for diversion flows to Russian R. by PG&E, run at 850-1300cfs recommended.
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryF?JBR, need 7 ft or 1000 cfs
S. Fork Eel (Ten Mile Creek Run to Confluence and Big Bend Takeout, flows fuctuate dramatically, need to catch after a rain), run with at least 3000 cfs at start time. http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryF?LEG
If LEG is out use 5X Navarro R. flow or 40% Miranda (MRD), or the hard way is to take the Main Eel readings and subtract the forks and other feeders.
Mark West Creek, generally you will need flows greater than 5000 cfs at Hopland to have adequate small boat flows in Mark West Cr.
Main "T" Run, Meral's Pool, can be derived by adding the flows at these two locations: Cherry Creek Dion and http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryF?TBI, run at between 1000 and 9000 cfs total, but the river is kick'in above 4500 cfs, Clavey Falls has a sneak chute on river right above 6000.
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryF?MER, run at levels between 1000-1500, experts only, note that the flow meter is reportedly off by 350cfs so subtract 350 from these values.
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryF?BRW
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryF?OXB for Tunnel Shoot run, run between 1000-2000 cfs.
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryF?SKF for Goodwin Canyon run, run between 1400-2400 cfs, run Haunted House left side of tongue if you can.
East Fork Carson R., fun expedition run above 900 cfs, camp at hot springs.
http://dg0daztcn.wr.usgs.gov/rt-cgi/gen_stn_pg?station=09380000, the Grand Canyon put-in, always runnable below 50,000 cfs.
Other Northern California River Flows
North Fork American River
River Stages
River Atlas

USA River Flows & Gauges - Outside California

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River FLOW Information

ACCESS POINT TO THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES OPERATIONAL HYDROLOGIC DATA

(DATA IS always PRELIMINARY AND SUBJECT TO REVISION, never guaranteed)

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Current River Conditions - CALIFORNIA

North Coast
Russian/Napa Rivers ;
San Francisco Bay Area ;
Central Coast
Upper Sacramento River:
Above Shasta Lake ; Bend Bridge to Ord Ferry ; Ord Ferry to Tisdale Weir ; Sutter Bypass
Sacramento Valley Creeks ; Sacramento Valley Weirs ; Sacramento Valley Reservoirs
Upper Sacramento River System Flows
Feather River ; Butte Creek ; Yuba/Bear Rivers
Lower Sacramento River;
American River; Cache Creek/Yolo Bypass
Lower Sacramento River System Flows
Small streams in Roseville Area | Sacramento County
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta ; Suisun Marsh
Cosumnes River/Mokelumne River;
Stanislaus River ;
Tuolumne River
Merced Streams Group Reservoirs ; Merced River stream gages
San Joaquin River: Friant to Newman; Newman to Delta
Arroyo Pasajero ;
Kings River
Truckee River
Scheduled Reservoir Releases

Current and Historical Data

Real-time data from a single station (text and plots)
Real-time data from a group of stations
Daily data from a single station (text and plots) or group of Daily stations
Monthly data for a single station
Historic Data:
Hourly (1984-1996) | Hourly(Oct 1995-present), Event, Daily, Monthly

Locating Stations

Lookup station meta data
Map of station location
Map of stations surrounding a specific location
List of new stations added to the database since January 1, 1997
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