Tippy Flow Data

[trent]

Don't ask me why, but since we started wading the Tippy, I've watched the flows to figure out when it is worth trying to wade and when it is going to be too high.

With all the rain and flooding, I've been watching the flows this week. If I'm making sense of the data correctly, it looks like the flows right now are at or near historical highs. From what I can tell, the last time the discharge rate was this high was in '91.

waterdata.usgs.gov/in/nwis/uv?site_no=03333050

It's interesting thinking about the volume of water that is flowing right now with the "gauge height" above 14 and the normal height where we like to wade is around 3.5.

It has also been a little interesting to watch the delay from when we actually get the precip to when it shows up on the flow data as being in the river.

[reelteacher]

The historical flow that is shown is on this date in history. It was much higher than this last year in January and February during that historical 500 year flooding event. I think it was 28 ft!! or twice what it is now.

This flooding is good news for the future. A good flood brings fish upstream. Fish always move upstream during floods and move downstream during droughts. When the water goes down a little, there should be lots of fish stacked up below the dams. Get ready!!