3 January 05
River High
Some time between when I went to work and when Pica came home for lunch, Putah Creek burst its banks by the Old Davis Road bridge, starting to flood the field to the southeast. There’s been lots of rain lately.
I found this page with graphs of the last 24 hours of flow of Putah Creek. The peak occurred about 3 AM this morning, measured at a station about 18 miles to the west. This site, run by the California Department of Water Resources, gives current river conditions for the major streams in California.
- The url is both useful and maddening at the same time. Unless I’m missing something, there’s no indication of what flood stage is, and only direct observation, such as yours, tells the real story. Hopefully, that field southeast of you is downstream (and downgradient!).— Sue 4. January 2005, 07:41 Link
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