For first time rafters who are a little nervous about what to expect, I suggest scheduling your trip during low water conditions. Applicants seeking to divert water in excess of these rates for in-house domestic use should provide information explaining why the additional quantity is needed.
When rivers are flowing at a faster rate, it is of upmost importance to listen and follow guide commands. The good people at Rochelle’s Canoe Rental shuttled us up ( in my truck ) for $30 and then locked my keys in it at the bottom so it was waiting for me when we were done. Zoom Flume rapid in Browns Canyon at a higher CFS. When there is extremely high CFS, fish will likely be stacked up on the banks trying to escape the harsh and fast current.
ASM320: Water and Waste Water Operations Units note: CFS, cfs, gpm • At the Univ., many science courses require SI units (e.g. For water that is stored or impounded, the acre-foot (af) is how water is measured. If the water is too high, we will portage rapids. CFS stands for Cubic Feet per Second, and is the main unit used to measure the volume of water passing a given point in a river in once second.
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Better to work out a plan and do a trip with fellow paddlers if you can.
Do your own shuttles. While I’m more of an adrenaline junkie, I certainly can appreciate the way my favorite butterfly inducing rapids mellow out during low CFS. In the case of the wooly bugger it means that it is a sure fire fly any time and any place. Woohoo! (It’s super easy to arrange, just ask!) Check the flows before you go out and make mental notes of what the rivers look like.
Water from the river enters and leaves the stilling well through underwater pipes allowing the water surface in the stilling well to be at the same elevation as the water surface in the river. If the river is low, your rafting trip might be more mellow and have less intense waves. The slower pace takes the pressure off remembering whether or not to back-paddle when your guide calls for a left turn. Even 500 wasn't what I would call "plenty." We offer private boater shuttles on many sections of the Arkansas River in Colorado and the Upper Salt River in Arizona. High water conditions are my favorite time to go rafting. Call us at 1-800-In A RAFT (1-800-462-7238) or book your Colorado white water rafting adventure online. All you then need to know is whether the river in question is normally, on average, navigable on that date. Call someone nearbyIt’s merely a tool, best info is scouting it personally.
The same CFS measurement can look different on different rivers. Cubic feet per second (cfs): * 1 cubic foot = 7.4805 gallons. Families with small children or those who may not want to paddle have the option of zero paddling on trips as well since we are able to mount oars on our rafts for your guide to row instead. With this said, CFS is very important to be aware of as different levels will give you different experiences on the water. Understanding CFS also helps to understand where fish will be at in the river at any given time. These figures do not include water for domestic stockwater or lawn and garden irrigation. This includes everything from class I to class V rapids. Having never gone whitewater rafting before, “CFS” was a completely foreign term.
Cfs readings are taken at select points along rivers, and readings vary with location. When there is extremely low flow/CFS, fish will likely be stacked up in a few holes just trying to survive. All and all it was an awesome trip and can’t wait to go back. This website says the optimal flow is 500cfs-3000cfs. It took us about 10 hours total of paddling but mostly because we were taking our time, fishing, screwing around, etc. The flow was fine and we only had to get out a couple of times and walk maybe 25 feet before we could start paddling again.
I’d guess 300 cfs might be enough to get by. I then found a link to water.usgs.gov and was further confused. 100 cfs is generally enough to float a loaded boat through most of the riffles, and that’s all I meant by saying it’s enough, and 200 cfs is plenty. Gage height refers to the elevation of the water surface in the specific pool at the streamgaging station, not along the entire stream. Check out our detailed information about the rivers you can raft across Colorado. 400 CFS on the Michigan River through town is raging and likely out of its banks and means you will not be able to safely cross the river at any point. In the upper right corner is a box labeled “Pre-defined displays.” From the pull-down menu select “Daily Stage and Streamflows”. If you ask me if I would have run those gravel bars with just 200 cfs, I say NO, but maybe you would. I spent many a day driving hundreds of miles to scout river levels all over the northeast for trips I was running. During High Water, at 3,800cfs and above, we don’t raft the whitewater park and put in below Santa Rita. Other sources of how gauge levels correspond to boatabilty are other paddlers who know the river, trip reports on the web, outfitter websites, or your own personal experience. We have some variance between day trips and multi-day trips on the Salt River: These trips have the same class of rapids for high and low water. High water conditions are my favorite time to go rafting. North Park Anglers, 524 Main Street Walden, CO. 80480. So…while you can run just about any Ozark stream at 100 cfs, if it’s a wide river like the lower Buffalo, you’ll have more trouble running it at 100 cfs than you will a narrow stream like the Jacks Fork. On dam controlled rivers, we had phone numbers of dam keepers to find out release times and levels.
The same … Class V: “violent rapids” will really get your adrenaline pumping and often have to be portaged. 100 cfs is generally enough to float a loaded boat through most of the riffles, and that’s all I meant by saying it’s enough, and 200 cfs is plenty. Michigan River through town around 400 CFS. The gage height graph will usually roughly parallel that flow rate graph, but gage height graphs will smooth out, for example, as one gets farther from a dam or if there is a wide marsh or flood plain. There is much more action and adrenaline charged waves and drops come with every turn of the river. That’s not such a good deal, IMHO.
There are people on Old Sparkey’s Forum who run the Brazos all-the-time.
So what is CFS. They will say the river is high, medium, low, or barely get-down-able at thus and so level ranges. The best way to really learn and understand CFS and what they look like on different rivers is just to get out on the water.
A trip down one of our most advanced sections of whitewater rafting (The Numbers) on my second day in town, quickly taught me the importance of paying attention to CFS and where the local obsession with CFS levels came from!
I was told to “check the river’s flow rate” and a quick Google search took me to the Brazos River Authority website. You now know exactly what to expect on that section of that river at whatever the flow and gage height was reading on the day you went. The trip from Possum Kingdom to Hwy 4 is 20 miles.
I will go back and check flow for dates for when we ran the middle Buffalo. Have you heard raft guides and river folks throw around the term ‘CFS’ but aren’t sure what that means? Luxurious, all-inclusive fishing and hunting vacations.
Join Mild to Wild in Moab to float down this relaxing and peaceful river while still getting a little wet! Gauges are installed on rivers in order to measure the CFS and that information can be found on city water data sites. To answer the more general questionThe gauge will tell you how much water is in the river – in terms of CFS or feet or both – at a given time, but the gauge can’t tell you whether that level is boatable or what the level will be tomorrow. Pay attention to this number when booking your trip as you soon will learn, water levels make a BIG difference on your whitewater rafting experience!
In spite of recent rains that took the edge off the drought, I doubt that you’re going to have good water in September. Glad to hear all went wellNow’s a good time to check those river levels and maybe start a notebook. The mathematical formula is: river width x depth x speed (flow and gradient) = cfs.
400 CFS through North Gate Canyon means good wade fishing levels and you will likely be able to completely cross the river at multiple points safely, however it is too skinny to take a raft down without having to jump out and drag it across flatter parts of the river. That doesn’t mean it’ll be fun for you if you’re looking for fast water or if you want to run everything without having to worry about picking the right line.
12600 US Highway 24/285 Reasonable shuttle price, for sure.
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