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QualityBoofMove
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Posted: Sep 28, 2015Post Subject: Goodwin Canyon Releases- Fall 2015
Does anyone know what days there will be releases in Goodwin Canyon during October? Or how to find this information? Thanks.
MMH
Member
Posted: Oct 21, 2015Post Subject: Pulse Flows from Goodwin Dam, October 2015
Below is the release schedule from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation operations. Hope it helps!


Please make the following release changes at Goodwin Dam:

date time from (cfs) to (cfs)
10-19-15 2300 200 300
10-20-15 0100 300 400
10-20-15 0300 400 500
10-20-15 0500 500 700
10-21-15 0100 700 500
10-21-15 2000 500 400
10-22-15 0100 400 300
10-22-15 0500 300 200
10-23-15 2000 200 300
10-23-15 2200 300 400
10-24-15 0001 400 500
10-24-15 0200 500 750
10-24-15 0400 750 1000
10-24-15 0600 1000 1250
10-25-15 0100 1250 1200
10-26-15 0100 1200 1150
10-27-15 0100 1150 1000
10-28-15 0100 1000 850
10-29-15 0100 850 750
10-30-15 0100 750 600
10-30-15 2300 600 850
10-31-15 0100 850 1100
10-31-15 0300 1100 1200
10-31-15 2300 1200 1100
11-02-15 0100 1100 1000
11-03-15 0100 1000 900
11-04-15 0100 900 800
11-05-15 0100 800 700
11-06-15 0100 700 600
11-07-15 0100 600 500
11-08-15 0100 500 400
11-08-15 1500 400 300
11-09-15 0100 300 250
11-10-15 0100 250 200

Note: Bi-Op sec 2e fall attraction flows
chris
Site Admin
Posted: Oct 21, 2015
Thanks for posting. Just a heads up that in previous years I found no clear correlation between the posted scheduled releases and actual releases, either in flow or timing, which is why I stopped posting this schedule on Dreamflows. But that was a few years ago. Hopefully this year is different ...
MMH
Member
Posted: Oct 21, 2015
Thanks, Chris. Yeah, we rafted on the first Saturday three or four years ago and flows dropped to about 600 cfs by mid-afternoon...made for an interesting but still fun day! So far the Orange Blossom flows are relatively consistent with the scheduled releases (other than the first 24 hours where pools were filling and such). The commercials are running Sat/24th and Sun/25th, so maybe they know something more. Have you heard from anyone running Camp Nine in recent weeks? On most days looks like kayak/IK only until 3 p.m. (and then rafting ok until about 8 p.m.).
QualityBoofMove
Member
Posted: Oct 22, 2015
Thanks for posting the schedule. Is this on the Bureau of Rec website somewhere? I haven't heard anything more from AO after their double days this weekend, so I'm assuming it's the same info for everyone. As for Camp 9, flows usually peak at 4:00, but I've launched after 6:00 and bumped down it in a 14' boat somewhere between 500-600 cfs.
jkosakowsky
Member
Posted: Oct 23, 2015Post Subject: Camp 9
We ran Camp 9 last Friday, October 16th. We put in at 2 pm; we were planning to put on at noon, but drove slower than expected. There was 950ish cfs. (It was a great flow). It seems to me like the flow schedule is more erratic now than it was in the summer. Meaning, one could put on in the middle of the day and enjoy a nice flow. The river bed felt very full of water, like it isn't draining completely.
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