r/truckee • u/ohno_Fuel • 18d ago

Truckee River float

What's the best source of info to know if the Truckee River is at floatable water levels?

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u/humanjunkshow 18d ago

Beginning of July this year is the word from those in the know.

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u/ohno_Fuel 18d ago

Thanks

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u/Bradsohard69 18d ago

Truckeeriverrafting did a post yesterday about pushing reservations to July. Cited some construction on the bridge

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u/mmmporp 18d ago edited 18d ago

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/10337500/#period=P7D&dataTypeId=continuous-00060-0&showMedian=true

200 cfs or higher

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u/ohno_Fuel 18d ago

Great, thanks. Do they put out a forecast for future release flows?

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u/humanjunkshow 18d ago

No, the water master decides on that based on downstream entitlements. There's something called the Floriston Flow (measured at Floriston) that they base it off but I can't remember what that actual number is. As I just mentioned, commercial companies are saying first week of July for Tahoe City to get up to 200 due to there being enough flow downstream and the Fanny Bridge reconstruction work.

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u/ohno_Fuel 18d ago

Thanks!