Oh dang I’m gonna need to get down there on my paddle board again 😎Paid attention to the Green when I crossed the bridge this morning. A quick glance says it’s come up 4-6 feet in the last day or so. It’s currently discharging at 6,210cfs which is 122% above normal.
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Record Snow pack, floods next?
- Thread starter Greg
- Start date
- Location
- Stinkwater
I feel like we might need an RME float trip this summer.
DesertRam
Active Member
- Location
- Southern New Mexico
Interesting. My Scout troop is canoeing the Green River the first week of June. I need to put a thread here and ask you locals more about it.
Thursty
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- Location
- Green River
Putting in at the museum or Green River State Park and taking out at Crystal Geyser is a fun float. Usually takes ~2 hours.
I’d like to float from Nefertiti to Swasey’s sometime but not sure how long that would take and probably not during high water on a paddle board. 😬
- Location
- Stinkwater
We did a two (three? I forget) night trip several years ago, putting in at Crystal and took out at Mineral Bottom. Starting up at Nefertiti would be fun, what's the water like between there and Crystal? Any real rapids?
rholbrook
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- Location
- Kaysville, Ut
The Green is up a lot since last Saturday
Thursty
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- Location
- Green River
There are some rapids on that stretch but I’ve never been through to know how serious they are other than Swasey’s. Below Swasey’s the River gets pretty calm and slow but you also pass through the Tusher Diversion Dam. You’d want to exercise some caution passing through here in a smaller craft.
There is a good put in below the damn and, again, this stretch is wide, calm and slower.
DesertRam
Active Member
- Location
- Southern New Mexico
We're putting in at Mineral Bottom and running all the way to the confluence with the Colorado. We'll be there for five days.
Thursty
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- Location
- Green River
What time of year are heading down? That’s generally a calm stretch of river but it will likely be high water and moving fast.
DesertRam
Active Member
- Location
- Southern New Mexico
June 4-9.
- Location
- Riverton, UT
Thinking about all this water and wondering about the principle of storing when you have plenty to use when there is a drought. Could we store the excess in old mine shafts and caves or build underground guzzlers. Fill all of the lakes and ponds before letting out any water. Set a limit to how low lakes can go down. What would be the effect downstream?
- Location
- Sandy, Ut
Mines in Big and Littlewood Canyon (and AFC too) are used as water reservoirs. Pretty neat use imo.
Been in the Alta mine, can confirm lots of water in there
- Location
- Riverton, UT
Looks like we have no excuse for flooding or not having enough water during droughts.
I do think more of that is done than we all are aware of, but I'd probably wager the problem is more complex than filling up a few mines and lakes and giving out a round of high-fives.
The state does employ engineers and scientists to figure out water storage and other hydrological issues. I suspect like other government scientists, the state hydrologists are acting out a much higher, darker, more nefarious initiative than what we are told. What swamp could be deeper than a state water board's?
You gotta start climbing the ladder somewhere.What swamp could be deeper than a state water board's?
Jesser04
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- Location
- Kaysville Utah
Sugarhouse park
- Location
- Stinkwater
Weren't they sledding on that hill a week ago?
- Location
- Grand Junction, CO
FIFY
- Location
- West Bountiful, UT
That’s come way up since I wa there yesterday morning metal detecting (one each gold and silver rings and a shit ton of clad).
- DAA