Lower American River going up a little more - 3/24/2018

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Project: Nimbus Dam

Please make the following release changes to the American River:

date time from (cfs) to (cfs)
3-24-18 1600 7500 8800
3-24-18 1700 8800 10,000


Comment: Storage Management

Issued by: Liz Kiteck

[FattMerro]

Any idea when it will start coming back down?

[Sheepdog8404]

Probably when Folsom is reduced to 20% so we can see drought flows all summer long...

[JasonB]

Probably when Folsom is reduced to 20% so we can see drought flows all summer long...

No need to grumble just yet, so far we’re in very very good shape for the lower river:
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/reservoirs/RES
Very favorable numbers for this time of year, and they aren’t draining Folsom at all just yet. The inflow was nearly 80,000cfs a couple days ago, and current inflow-outflow is nearly a push:
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/dynamicapp/QueryF?s=FOL

Looks to me like classic withdrawal symptoms, tell your wife and school that an intervention may be justified, clearly you need some fishing time asap! Our poor raft is looking a bit neglected too lately, we should fix that.

[JasonB]

Any idea when it will start coming back down?

Take a look at the links I posted above to get a very rough sense of what’s happening in real time. As far as when the might cut back on the flows??? Hard to say for sure, but I would suspect that they would want to reduce the storage amount at least a bit before doing so. Inflows should drop off a bit this week, so they might step flows down as the inflows drop down to 5,000-6,000cfs?
Purely guessing of course JB

[FattMerro]

Appreciate it JasonB! Time to brush up on some high water tactics

[Sheepdog8404]

Haha. I think you're right, Jason. My negativity usually comes to light when I haven't hit the water in a while. I'm on spring break this week and quite bummed that almost all the rivers are blown. Even my secret bass pond is a no go right now because it's chocolate milk. Lets knock the dust off that raft and make sure she still floats!