Rain affecting mountain pond/lake levels

[billski]

Just got off the phone with Fryeburg Maine, the lake levels are pretty high up there. I'll see it first hand on Friday. Anyone with other reports?

 

[Angus]

last two weekends have climbed Lafayette and Carrigain and there is a ton of water on the trails and the associated streams are roaring - the pemi and saco are really high on their banks and volume-wise. our lake in c. nh is definitely on the high-side - the merrimack is so high that all the lakes are holding extra water. have not had more than 10' of visibility above 3,500-4,000 feet on either hike - crappy weather.

 

[billski]

I'll bet they are having unscheduled dam releases too.

 

[Johnskiismore]

On the 4th we were driving back from Acadia and went through Rumford, ME, and you shopuld've seen the waterfall there!! Water was just chugging down the 150' falls, we had to pull over and watch it from the bridge for a while. Seeing the water like this is expected in April, not in July

 

[bigbog]

..especially in the lower stretches of a river...

The Andy, in it's lower 1/4 is big water..and you're looking at all the accumulated tribs really compounding the levels...

AW's page fwiw..billski/anyone....I'll let you or anyone play around with it...at least one can see the shrinking volume levels...but the showers coming out of Canada aren't quitting... :roll:
http://www.americanwhitewater.org/content/Gauge2/detail/id/43/

*7/14 EDIT: Thought I could see a ~20min gap between thunderclouds yesterday....with bright sunshine and very thin wisps of remainder of clouds...I break out the hibachi to do a few burgers...and it starts raining in bright sunshine...:roll:

 

[billski]

The Andy, in it's lower 1/4 is big water..and you're looking at all the accumulated tribs really compounding the levels...

AW's page fwiw..billski/anyone....I'll let you or anyone play around with it...at least one can see the shrinking volume levels...but the showers coming out of Canada aren't quitting... :roll:
http://www.americanwhitewater.org/content/Gauge2/detail/id/43/

*7/14 EDIT: Thought I could see a ~20min gap between thunderclouds yesterday....with bright sunshine and very thin wisps of remainder of clouds...I break out the hibachi to do a few burgers...and it starts raining in bright sunshine...:roll:

Maybe I don't know how to read that chart. I thought flow was entirely controlled by dams these days, with most being discharged on the weekends. I didn't think any day to day flow comparison was relevant. Does flatline after 7/16 mean that they stopped discharging nominally? Perhaps they were discharging at higher levels before that. I never saw the andy when I was in Berlin. All I saw were leaves and lights from the ambulance

On Lovell pond the shoreline was up about 6-10 feet and the mostquitoes carried away all my kids last week . Nasty.

 

[4aprice]

Personnally the rain in June was good news for me. Due to state mismanagement and a dry March and April, Lake Hopatcong entered the boating season 3 to 3 1/2 feet below full pool rendering most peoples slips unuseable. Last winter the lake was lowered 5 ft for a 5 year draw down that allows home owners, marinas and others (including state property) to work on docks and seawalls. Proplem was they(the state DEP who says they own the water) let too much water out of the lake. Word I've heard was to finish work which had been politically gifted to an underqualified contractor on the seawall at the State Park. They then compounded the problem by continuing to release water to "protect" the Musconetcong River water shed that they deem "wild" and the state makes money off of by selling fishing stamps for trout which they stock and is not native to the river. It was a mess, Memorial Day weekend was lost and business owners around the lake unsucessfully sued the state. It must be noted that this is a Repuplican area in a very Democratic state and of course King Corslime was of no help. Someone above must have been smiling on us though with 10+ inches of rain the lake has achived full pool despite the state.

BTW it's been a fun day in NJ today. Lots of politicans and others being lead away in hand cuffs. And they wonder why we can't trust them.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ