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Old October 20th, 2009, 06:28 AM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
DaveS
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Default Current River Flow Data

On Oct 19, 9:59*am, george9219 wrote:
On Oct 19, 12:24*pm, DaveS wrote:

For years I did not pay much attention to river flow levels. If i had
some time to fish I just showed up and whatever was happening, whether
at flood or dewatered, I was there and made the best of it.


But the last few years, and especially since I bought a streach, Ive
been paying much more attention. Washington state has a pretty
extensive set of flow and temp measuring stations linked by telemetry
to a website.


https://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/wrx/wrx/...asp?sta=32B110


What are other States doing? Where do you go for current flow data?
How close to realtime is the data you can access?


Dave


http://water.usgs.gov/
National data.Frequency of reporting varies by state and individual
site. MA, for instance varies from 12 hrs to 2 hrs in reporting
frequencies. Generally larger streams report more frequently. A few
sites also report water temp.

www.h20line.com
Operated by hydro power companies in New England. Reports are
discharge rates from various hydro dams. Generally within 5 minutes of
real time.


Thanx George. I noticed on the USGS site that some of the Mass. flow
stations have lost their funding and will be shut down. I wonder if
that is happening across the country.

Dave