- June 24, 2012:
- Added a Dreamflows calendar-style page showing the flow schedule for Clear Creek - Below Whiskeytown Lake.
- June 19, 2012:
- Started reporting scheduled flow information on the Fantasy Flows page for
Clear Creek - Below Whiskeytown Lake.
Inspiration for reporting this information came from a bulletin board post by Ron Rogers.
- June 18, 2012:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new Colorado site:
- Roaring Fork - At Glenwood Springs
Dreamflows started reporting this gauge at the request of Tim Hood.
- June 7, 2012:
- Started reporting scheduled flow information on the Fantasy Flows page for
Mi. American - Above Tunnel Chute
- May 13, 2012:
- Added a Dreamflows calendar-style page showing the flow schedule for the Middle Fork American River Below Ralston Dam (Oxbow).
- April 24, 2012:
- Started reporting realtime flow information for the following new California site:
- San Joaquin - Below Stevenson Creek
Dreamflows started reporting this gauge as a result of information provided by Paul Martzen.
- March 7, 2012:
- Several folks reported that they were getting '910' error messages when they clicked on a section link
(under the Section Index header) on the new flows report page.
Thanks to all of you - amongst other things, reports from several different visitors makes it clear there's a pervasive problem,
not some kind of local fluke or environment issue.
Anyway, Tracy Soule provided enough information that I was able to reproduce, and create a workaround.
Both Firefox and IE manifested the problem, whereas Chrome, Safari and Opera did not.
Go Chrome, Safari and Opera.
The problem should be fixed now.
- March 2, 2012:
- Dreamflows is now providing unrestricted access to Fantasy Flows from the Flows Page.
Previously, before granting access, I wanted email from you saying you understood just how fantastical and unreliable those
Fantasy Flows could be (and very often are), but I got tired of that.
So have at it and enjoy, but please, please, please take those disclaimers seriously.
- March 1, 2012:
- Merged the Realtime, Daily and Fantasy Flows reports into a single Flows Page.
Select the flow report and format of your choice by means of the drop-down menus near the top of the page, then click Go.
The old pages (14 of them) are now defunct; visitors are redirected from each of the old pages to the single new one.
- January 9, 2012:
- Added select 'Composite' maps to the Cross-Listing Pages.
Each 'Composite' map shows the relationship between gauges and runs for that drainage,
or in some cases logical sub-section of that drainage.
Each composite map appears under the most upstream gauge/run in the drainage.
So, for instance, for the North Yuba, the Composite entry appears under the Sierra City gauge,
since that is the most upstream gauge in the North Yuba drainage.
The following Composite maps are currently available:
- South Fork American River - Lower - Composite
- North Fork Kern River - Lower - Composite
- North Yuba River - Composite
- South Fork Payette River - Composite
[For folks who are wondering why the SF Payette is included at this time, the answer is that the primary Dreamflows beta tester,
Tracy from Boise, is from ... well ... Boise, so of course I'm going to include the SF Payette
].
On the 'Composite' map, colored 'tracks' show the approximate path of each run.
A by-product of this is that, where available, tracks information is supplied even on non-composite maps.
For instance, tracks are now drawn by default for the Chili Bar run:
- So. American - At Chili Bar
Note that for Chili Bar, take-out locations downstream of the nominal take-out for the run are shown.
Admitedly it's a little funky to show take-outs (or in other situations put-ins) beyond the bounds of the recognized run,
however I think that's just life; not everything fits neatly into a pre-conceived box, and
folks put in/take out wherever's convenient.
Note also, that if a given function on the map is disabled (e.g Show Rapids is greyed out)
it just means that information isn't available (yet).
- December 17, 2011:
- Added a 'landmark' marker type to reach maps, displayed as
.
This type of marker is for locating lunch spots, parking areas when put-in/take-out requires hiking, etc.
A sample (but real) map with all the currently supported marker types appears here.
- December 8, 2011:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California site:
- San Francisquito Cr - At Stanford University
- November 26, 2011:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California site:
- San Antonio - Near Lockwood
- November 23, 2011:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California site:
- So. Gualala - Near Sea Ranch
- October 30, 2011:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California site:
- Rubicon - At Ellicott Bridge
This data is being provided direct to Dreamflows by Placer County Water Agency as part of the relicensing process.
Huge thanks to Hilde Schweitzer for her work in encouraging Placer County Water Agency to make this data available.
- October 13, 2011:
- The following Washingston State Department of Ecology flow sites are now being reported with 15-minute data:
- Dosewallips - At Brinnon
- Nason Creek - Near Mouth
- Pilchuck Creek - At I-5 Bridge
- Squire Creek - At Squire Creek Park
- Deer Creek - Near Oso
- Jim Creek - At Whites Road
- Canyon Creek - Near Masonic Park
- Big Quilcene - Near Mouth
- Grays - Below Hwy-4 Bridge
- Germany Creek - At Mouth
- Little Klickitat - Near Wahkiacus
- Peshastin Creek - Near Wenatchee Confluence
- Little Wenatchee - Below Rainy Creek
- Soleduck - Near Quillayute
- Mad - Above Camp Nine
- Rock Creek - At Stevenson
- Wind River - At Stabler
They were previously reported as daily average flow.
- September 28, 2011:
- Changed the way put-in/take-out locations are reporting on the cross-listing pages.
Previously, locations were displayed individually (each on its own map).
Now, a single map displays all published put-in and take-out locations, as well as the gauge location.
This should help make it much clearer what the relationships are, particularly between the run and its associated gauge.
Rapid locations are also displayed where available (very few at this point in time).
In addition, clicking on a given marker shows its lat/long co-ordinates, and also offers driving directions.
To see how the new system works, try Chili Bar.
On the cross-listing page, click on the 'MAP' icon for the Chili Bar entry;
this will take you here.
- September 6, 2011:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California site:
- Coyote Creek - Above Coyote Lake
- August 29, 2011:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California site:
- No. Cosumnes - At Sand Ridge Rd
- August 17, 2011:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new Washington site:
- No. Lewis - Above Muddy River
Dreamflows started reporting this flow site at the request of Jeremy Lynn.
- July 4, 2011:
- Stopped reporting realtime flow information for Stony Creek - Inflow Black Butte Res, and started reporting daily averages instead.
The reason is that the realtime flow data jumped around so badly, and asymetrically, that it was almost impossible to make out what was going on.
Reporting daily average flow instead solves this problem.
- July 1, 2011:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California sites:
- Slate Creek - Below Diversion Dam
- Lost Creek - Below Lost Creek Res
- So. Feather - Below SF Diversion Dam
- Jun 25, 2011:
- Added a 'Topo' display capability to the Using Google Maps option of the
desktop customized flow reports page.
The topos are somewhat limited in zoom range, and at the lowest zoom some of the tiles are missing,
which MyTopo will hopefully fix.
Either way, it's really cool of MyTopo to make these maps available to us.
- Jun 10, 2011:
- Added two search capabilities to the Google Maps option of the
desktop customized flow reports page.
The first searches for a user-supplied address, city or zip code, while the second searches (by name) for one or more Dreamflows flow sites.
- Jun 5, 2011:
- Added a Google Maps option to the desktop customized flow reports page.
See the help page for an example and more information.
Note that by default it displays only your 'favorites' flow sites, however you can ask it to map all flow sites, or just realtime, if you wish.
I have been pondering a maps version of the Dreamflows reports for some time (a couple years in fact),
but could never decide how best to present it.
So when Mike Walkinshaw shared a link to his own mapping system for Dreamflows,
I was fired up and used his system as a model.
Thank you, Mike, for the inspiration, and permission to model my system on yours.
- May 23, 2011:
- Dreamflows started offering customized flow reports for desktop/laptop computers.
Flows are reported in the same format as the existing realtime/daily flow reports, however,
you get to specify which flow sites are reported, and in which order, by means of your favorites list.
This complements the Smart Phone system already in existence.
For more information, visit the relevant Help Page
- May 19, 2011:
- Started reporting realtime flow information for the following (existing) California site:
- No. Yuba - Inflow New Bullards Bar
Previously, this site reported only daily average flow.
- May 17, 2011:
- Dreamflows is once again reporting the California site:
- No. Yuba - Below New Bullards Bar
Yuba County Water Agency shared that CDEC's CPH site is Colgate Powerhouse flow,
i.e. it's the diversion from New Bullards Bar, so subtracting CPH from BUL gives the release to the river.
Thanks to Bob Center for discovering this and passing it on.
- May 11, 2011:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new Utah site:
- Escalante - Near Escalante
Dreamflows started reporting this flow site at the request of Rorie Gotham.
- May 10, 2011:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California sites:
- Deer Creek - Near Smartville
- Yuba - Below Deer Creek
- May 6, 2011:
- Dreamflows used to report flows for the following California site:
- Brush Creek - At Take-Out Bridge
- Added it back to the reports and the cross-listing page to provide a place-holder for reach and bulletin-board information.
- May 5, 2011:
- Started reporting realtime flow information on the pages for the following new California site:
- McCloud - Below McCloud Dam
Dreamflows started reporting this gauge as a result of information provided by Paul Martzen.
- Apr 25, 2011:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new Utah sites:
- Colorado - In Cataract Canyon
- Green - At Green River
Dreamflows started reporting these gauges at the request of Jake Wallace.
- Apr 24, 2011:
- Renamed Mobile Services to Custom Flows, and moved the pages to match.
Also renamed and re-organized some of the pages.
This is to allow more flexibility for future enhancements.
In particular, the Mobile entry in the blue banner at the top of Dreamflows pages has changed to Custom,
which takes you to the Custom Flows Start page.
- Apr 17, 2011:
- Added the following flow sites to the Fantasy Flows page:
- Klamath - At Klamath Glen
- Trinity - At Hoopa
- Mad River - At Arcata
- Eel - At Fort Seward
- Sacramento - At Bend Bridge
- Stanislaus - At Orange Blossom Bridge
- West Walker - At Little Walker River
- Truckee - At Reno
- Carson - Near Carson City
- Retired the following flow sites from the Fantasy Flows page (due to insufficient data):
- No. Salmon - Near Forks of Salmon
- So. Salmon - At Forks of Salmon
- Salmon - At Somes Bar
- West Walker - At Walker
- Mar 27, 2011:
- Started offering Dreamflows Mobile Services (a free service).
To access, click on the Mobile link in the blue header of any Dreamflow page.
For details on how it works, click on the Mobile-Help link in the gray menubar on that page.
But briefly, this service offers the ability to create your own 'favorites' list of flow sites, effectively creating personalized Dreamflows flow reports.
The flow information is formatted specifically for smart phones.
It's server based, not an 'app', so the same system works for iPhone, Android and others.
However, it also renders fine (though a little differently, and in a large font) on modern browsers like Firefox, Opera, IE, Safari and Chrome.
This means that a smart phone is not required - a PC works too.
- Mar 23, 2011:
- Started reporting realtime flow information on the pages for the following new California site:
- Guadalupe - At San Jose
Dreamflows started reporting this gauge at the request of Brendan Curran.
[Brendan's interest is in playboating, and recommends the section from Children's Discovery Museum to Below 880 (2.6 miles)].
- Mar 6, 2011:
- Started reporting realtime flow information for the following (existing) California sites:
- So. Feather - Below Little Grass Valley
- So. Feather - Below Forbestown Div Dam
Previously, these sites reported only scheduled release information.
This new realtime information is courtesy of the South Feather Water and Power Agency.
- Feb 19, 2011:
- Started publishing the Dreamflows Easywater Flows page.
This page reports gauges that are associated with easy whitewater (Class I and easy Class II).
A Realtime Flows version is also available.
Most of the Easywater flow sites already appear on other reports, since the same gauge serves both easy and hard runs.
However, the following California Easywater flow sites are all new (i.e. they don't appear elsewhere):
- So. Eel - At Miranda
- Sacramento - Below Keswick Dam
- Sacramento - At Vina-Woodson Bridge
- Tuolumne - Below La Grange Dam
- San Joaquin - Below Friant Dam
- San Joaquin - At Donny Bridge
- San Joaquin - At Gravelly Ford
- San Joaquin - At Mendota
- Nov 27, 2010:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new Oregon site:
- Grande Ronde - Near Perry
- Oct 14, 2010:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California site:
- No. Weber Creek - Inflow Weber Res
Paul Martzen provided the inspiration for posting this gauge and most of the information on it.
- Jun 2, 2010:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California site:
- Mi. Yuba - Above Our House Dam
This flow information comes to you courtesy of Yuba County Water Agency (YCWA).
- May 8, 2010:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California sites:
- Mi. Stanislaus - Below Sand Bar Flat Dam
- So. Stanislaus - At Strawberry
- So. Stanislaus - Below Filladelfia Div Dam
- Stanislaus - At Camp Nine
- Apr 11, 2010:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new Colorado site:
- Yampa - At Steamboat Springs
- Apr 9, 2010:
- On the flow reports sites that are not reporting, and are known to be "discontinued", are now marked "Site not currently reporting".
Gauges come and go, so a gauge that's discontinued this year could be reporting again next year and vice versa.
As you might expect, it's often just a matter of funding.
- Jan 3, 2010:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California site:
- Trinity - At Pigeon Point
- Dec 25, 2009:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California site:
- Big Sur - Near Big Sur
- Dec 13, 2009:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California site:
- Santa Ynez - Below Los Laureles Canyon
- Dec 12, 2009:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new Idaho site:
- Saint Joe - At Red Ives Ranger Stn
- Started reporting flow information for the following new Wyoming site:
- Mi. Powder - Near Barnum]
- Nov 1, 2009:
- For certain privileged sites, Dreamflows will be reporting more up-to-date information than previously.
This is made possible by an improved download process, which in turn allows Dreamflows to download flow information for these privileged sites more often.
These improvements will cause flow information for some sites to appear on the Realtime report significantly earlier than previously.
These are the more famous of the privileged flow sites:
- Smith - At Jedediah Smith (plus estimated sites based on Jed Smith)
- Salmon - At Somes Bar (plus estimated sites based on Somes Bar)
- Mi. Feather - At Milsap Bar
- No. American - Inflow Lake Clementine
- Mi. American - Above Tunnel Chute
- So. American - At Chili Bar
- Kaweah - At Three Rivers
- No. Kern - At Kernville
- Sep 9, 2009:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California site:
- Pit - Above Pit 1 Powerhouse
- May 12, 2009:
- Started reporting flow information again for the following pre-existing California sites:
- No. Kings - Above Dinkey Creek
- Dinkey Creek - Above North Fork Kings
- Dinkey Creek - At Dinkey Meadow
- May 11, 2009:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California sites:
- Tuolumne - Below Hetch Hetchy
- Tuolumne - Above Early Intake
- Apr 10, 2009:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California site:
- Clavey - Near Hunter Bend
- Apr 9, 2009:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California sites:
- Mi. Tuolumne - Above So. Fork Confluence
- So. Tuolumne - At Rainbow Pool
- Apr 3, 2009:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California sites:
- Pit - Below Pit 4 Dam
- Pit - At Big Bend
- Mar 6, 2009:
- Added the following Idaho rating tables:
- Bruneau - Near Hot Springs
- Payette - Near Horseshoe Bend
- Mi. Salmon - At Middle Fork Lodge
- Added the following Oregon rating tables:
- Illinois - Near Kerby
- So. Rogue - Below Imnaha Creek
- Big Butte Creek - Near McLeod
- Rogue - At Raygold
- Rogue - Near Agness
- Owyhee - Near Rome
- Mar 9, 2009:
- John Donovan pointed out that the site name Mi. American - Rel Oxbow was misleading, since
the gauge is somewhat downstream (below the NF MF confluence in fact).
As a result, the name has been changed to Mi. American - Above Tunnel Chute.
- Mar 6, 2009:
- Added the following California rating tables:
- Klamath - At Klamath Glen
- Mad River - Above Ruth Lake
- Eel - At Scotia
- Russian - Near Cloverdale
- Arroyo Valle - Above Lake Del Valle
- McCloud - Inflow McCloud Res
- Pescadero Creek - Near Pescadero
- Piru Creek - Above Pyramid Lake
- Piru Creek - Above Lake Piru
- Piru Creek - Below Lake Piru
- Spanish Creek - Near Keddie
- No. Yuba - Above Slate Creek
- Mi. Yuba - Below Our House Dam
- No. Kings - Below Dinkey Creek
- Mar 4, 2009:
- Added links (using
as the image to click on) from the run reach/cross-listing pages to the color-coded flow trigger level page.
Nope, not a country flag; the red/green/yellow stripes represent the high/good/low colors used by Dreamflows for river flow levels.
- Mar 3, 2009:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California site:
- Indian Creek - Near Douglas City
- Mar 2, 2009:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California site:
- Fresno - Above Henley Lake
Stopped reporting flows for Fresno - Inflow Hidden Dam since the quality of data reported by this new gauge should be far better.
- Feb 24, 2009:
- Added the following California rating tables:
- Indian Creek - Below Indian Falls
- American - Below Lake Natoma
- Stanislaus - At Orange Blossom Bridge
- Tuolumne - Below Early Intake
- Kaweah - At Three Rivers
- So. Kern - Near Onyx
- Truckee - Near Truckee
- E. Fk Carson - Near Markleeville
- West Walker - At Little Walker River
- Feb 21, 2009:
- Started reporting Fantasy flow information for:
- Illinois - Near Kerby
- Rogue - Near Agness
- Canton Creek - Above Steamboat Creek
- Steamboat Creek - Below Canton Creek
- So. Umpqua - At Tiller
- Klamath - Below Seiad Valley
- Klamath - At Orleans
- Cache Creek - At Rumsey Bridge (Gage)
- Truckee - Near Floriston
- Feb 20, 2009:
- Started reporting Fantasy flow information for:
- No. Salmon - Near Forks of Salmon
- So. Salmon - At Forks of Salmon
- Salmon - At Somes Bar
and stopped reporting Fantasy flow information for:
- Pit - Below Pit 1 Powerhouse
- Feb 17, 2009:
- Added the following California rating tables:
- Alameda Creek - Near Niles
- Cuyama - Below Buckhorn Canyon
- Sespe Creek - Near Fillmore
- Santa Margarita - Near Temecula
- Clear Creek - Below Whiskeytown Lake
- Butte Creek - Near Chico
- Bear Creek - Above Cache Creek
- No. Yuba - Below Goodyears Bar
See the complete list of available tables.
- Feb 16, 2009:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new Washington sites:
- Queets - Near Clearwater
- So. Snoqualmie - Near Garcia
- Sultan - Below Powerplant
- Sauk - Above White Chuck River
- Sauk - Near Sauk
- Feb 11, 2009:
- Started reporting gauge datum (i.e., elevation of the gauge above mean sea level) for most flow sites reported by Dreamflows.
The datum information is taken from a variety of sources, usually the reporting agency (e.g. USGS or CDEC).
The datum (when available) is appended to the gauge location information on the Cross-Listing Page.
For instance, the datum of the Chili Bar gauge is given as 931 feet.
- Jan 26, 2009:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new Washington sites:
- Chewuch - At Winthrop
- Icicle Creek - Above Snow Creek
- Palouse - At Hooper
- Dungeness - Near Sequim
- Dec 15, 2008:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new Oregon site:
- Elk Creek - Above Rogue River
- Dec 14, 2008:
- Renamed 'Cache Creek - At Rumsey Bridge' to 'Cache Creek - At Rumsey Bridge (Calc)', and
in addition started reporting flow information for the following new California site:
- Cache Creek - At Rumsey Bridge (Gage)
Historically, the "Gage" entry on the reports has been accurate only at higher flows, so that the "Calc" entry was the better option at lower flows.
For more detail, read the bulletin board entries for "Calc" and "Gage".
- Dec 8, 2008:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new Washington sites:
- Spokane - At Spokane
- American - Near Nile
- Canyon Creek - Near Amboy
- No. Skokomish - Below Staircase
- So. Skokomish - Near Union
- White - Below Clearwater River
- Dec 1, 2008:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new Washington sites:
- Mi. Nooksack - Near Deming
- So. Nooksack - At Saxon Bridge
- Nov 27, 2008:
- Stopped reporting flow information for the following Washington site:
- Elwha - Above Lake Mills
Reason: USGS no longer reports flow information for this gauge.
- Nov 15, 2008:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California site:
- East Walker - Near Bridgeport
Dreamflows started reporting this gauge at the request of Tom Yant.
- Nov 4, 2008:
- Replaced the old alphabetical listing page (ordered by flow site) with a new
- alphabetical listing page
ordered by reach/run.
The new page contains more information, and presents it in a more intuitive and useful way.
- Oct 20, 2008:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new Washington sites:
- Wind River - At Stabler
- Panther Creek - Near Carson
- Rock Creek - At Stevenson
Only gauge heights are available at this time.
- Oct 13, 2008:
- Added a link to Tom Saffell's California River Map in the Index section of the flow report pages.
- Jul 1, 2008:
- Added a guidebook entry for the following Oregon run:
- Applegate - First Bridge to Second Bridge
- Jun 19, 2008:
- Finally bowed to the inevitable: on the Idaho Page,
renamed Payette - Below Deer Creek to So. Payette - Below Deer Creek.
Maps (USGS, DeLorme, Google) all clearly show the section between middle and north forks as being the Main Payette, but local usage insists it's the South Fork.
Who cares, really, as long as we're all talking about the same thing, and since the locals call it the 'South Fork', we'll follow suit.
- Jun 13, 2008:
- Started reporting reservoir elevations for the following new California site:
- American - Folsom Lake Elevation
This information is intended to help determine the expected paddle out at the end of the Gorge run on the South Fork American.
Also paddle out for the Confluence run on the North Fork American (i.e. the run between the NF/MF confluence, and Rattlesnake Bar).
If you have information about which reservoir elevations correspond to what length of paddle out (either in distance or in time, for either of the above two runs), please share.
- May 28, 2008:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- New River - New River Gorge
This is an obsolete (but real) river gauge whose readings are entered into Dreamflows every now and then by a local volunteer.
This means the most-recent data may be somewhat out-of-date.
If so, you can still compare the readings (which are actual flow) with Dreamflows' Denny estimate (which is estimated flow), and in this way "calibrate" the Denny gauge, i.e. get a feel for whether the Denny estimate is currently high, good or low, and compensate accordingly.
- May 25, 2008:
- Started reporting flows for the following new Oregon site:
- Applegate - Below Applegate Dam
- May 7, 2008:
- Added several other rating tables.
See the complete list of available tables.
- May 6, 2008:
- Added the following rating tables:
- Scott - Near Fort Jones
- West Br Feather - At Whiskey Flat Bridge
- Mi. Cosumnes - At Mt Aukum Rd
- Updated the rating table for:
- So. Merced - At Wawona
- May 1, 2008:
- Started reporting estimated flows for the following new California site:
- Cherry Creek - Above Cherry Lake
This EXPERIMENTAL calculation involves a lot of different gauges in different places, and the timing between them doesn't line up quite right.
So, expect to see glitches in the graph.
But, in general, during snowmelt (like now), expect to see a nice sine wave with the peak in the early hours of the morning,
and the trough late afternoon.
Give feedback when you go up there please - let's learn how reliable the estimate is,
and try to relate reported flows with what's good to go.
- May 1, 2008:
- Started reporting estimated flows for the following pre-existing California site:
- South Silver - At Autobahn
Previously, for South Silver - At Autobahn, Low/Good/High flow levels were entered by hand
when some benign person was up there and remembered to enter them.
Now, they're EXPERIMENTALLY estimated based on Ice House storage changes, and a guess at the Ice House outflow.
The estimate might not always be super accurate, but most of the time it should be reasonable.
At least, that's the theory.
Feedback, please.
- Apr 30, 2008:
- Started reporting flows for the following new Oregon site:
- Applegate - Inflow Applegate Lake
- Added a corresponding guidebook entry:
- Upper Applegate River (Road access to Applegate Lake)
- Apr 29, 2008:
- Switched from using TopoZone to ACME Mapper for gauge, put-in and take-out locations.
Wow, ACME Mapper is way more versatile, way slicker.
Image registration seems to be a problem with these mapping services though - they don't all display a given lat/long co-ordinate in the same place,
nor do they necessarily display a given GPS waypoint in the correct location.
But, generally, the supplied co-ordinates should get you close enough to locate what you're interested in.
- Apr 28, 2008:
- Added a new scheduled-release page:
- South Fork Feather - Below Forbestown Diversion Dam
- Apr 20, 2008:
- Stopped reporting flow information for the following California site:
- So. Yuba - At Kingvale Bridge
It has been replaced by the new So. Yuba - Near Cisco realtime gauge. If you want information on suitable stick gauge heights (near the put-in for the Summit run), see the online guides at
- Upper South Yuba - Summit Run
- Upper South Yuba - Spaulding Run
- Apr 18, 2008:
- Started reporting flows for the following new or changed California sites:
- So. Yuba - Near Cisco (new)
- Fordyce Creek - Below Fordyce Dam (changed)
- So. Yuba - At Lang Crossing (new)
- Bear - At Hwy 20 Bridge (new)
- Bear - Below Drum Afterbay (new)
Fordyce Creek - Below Fordyce Dam used to be a scheduled-release site, but is now a realtime site reporting gauge data.
Information for all of the above five sites is being provided by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E). This is to support boating flow studies, as a part of FERC relicensing.
- Apr 15, 2008:
- The old region/section
- California - West Slope
was getting way too unwieldy, so split it into two new ones:
- California - West Slope - Northern
- California - West Slope - Southern
- Apr 13, 2008:
- Dreamflows online reports now have two operating modes: all sections at once (the only mode available until now,
where the entire page is displayed all at once), and one section at a time (a new mode where only the currently-selected section/region is displayed).
An example of a section is California North Coast.
Pages using one section at a time are much smaller, therefore quicker to load and display on your browser.
This mode is primarily intended for visitors using a mobile device (e.g. cell-phone), where both bandwidth and memory tend to be an issue.
The downside of one section at a time is, naturally, that only one section is displayed, so displaying a different section requires a page reload.
The default mode is all sections at once for standard-format reports, and one section at a time for compact-format reports.
Links are provided for switching between modes.
This enhancement was made at the request of Mark D'Agostino.
- Apr 3, 2008:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- No. Yuba - Above Slate Creek
- Apr 2, 2008:
- Started reporting flows for the following new Washington sites:
- Mad - Above Camp Nine
- Soleduck - Near Quillayute
Dreamflows started reporting these gauges at the request of Tom O'Keefe.
- Mar 30, 2008:
- Renamed the following Oregon sites:
- Deschutes - Above Lake Billy Chinook to Deschutes - Near Culver
- Crooked - Above Lake Billy Chinook to Crooked - Below Opal Springs
These changes were at the suggestion of Tom O'Keefe.
- Mar 29, 2008:
- Added a System-Wide Profile section to your profile.
The new features give you better control over your Dreamflows login session.
For more information, see the help page.
- Mar 25, 2008:
- Started reporting flows for the following new Oregon sites:
- Deschutes - Below Wickiup Reservoir
- Crooked - At Smith Rock State Park
- Started reporting flows for the following new Washington sites:
- Cle Elum - Inflow Cle Elum Lake
- Cle Elum - Below Cle Elum Dam
- Teanaway - Below Forks
- Bumping - Below Bumping Dam
- Naches - Near Cliffdell
- Tieton - At Rimrock
- Germany Creek - At Mouth
Dreamflows started reporting these gauges at the request of Tom O'Keefe.
- Mar 17, 2008:
- The Dreamflows account login page now has a "Keep me logged in" option.
If you check this box when you login, you'll stay logged in until you log out again, even if you use your account only occasionally.
This option is intended for the case where you have exclusive access to the computer you're using.
For more details, see the help page.
- Mar 16, 2008:
- Started reporting flows for the following new Washington sites:
- Little Wenatchee - Below Rainy Creek
- Peshastin Creek - Near Wenatchee Confluence
- Little Klickitat - Near Wahkiacus
- Grays - Below Hwy-4 Bridge
- Big Quilcene - Near Mouth
- Squire Creek - At Squire Creek Park
- Deer Creek - Near Oso
- Canyon Creek - Near Masonic Park
- Jim Creek - At Whites Road
- Pilchuck Creek - At I-5 Bridge
Dreamflows started reporting these gauges at the request of Tom O'Keefe.
- Mar 12, 2008:
- Started reporting flows for the following new Washington site:
- Nason Creek - Near Mouth
Dreamflows started reporting this gauge at the suggestion of Tom O'Keefe.
- Feb 22, 2008:
- Added a dedicated Bear River photos page.
- Feb 19, 2008:
- Added a FlowSlope field to the CSV-format flow reports.
See the CSV Info page for more information.
- Feb 18, 2008:
- Started reporting flows for the following new New Mexico sites:
- Gila - Near Gila
- Gila - Near Redrock
- Feb 8, 2008:
- Started reporting daily snapshot flow data for the following new California sites:
- Bear - Below Dutch Flat Afterbay
- Canyon Creek - Below Bowman Lake
- Mi. Yuba - Below Milton Dam
In addition, Dreamflows is reporting daily snapshot flow data for the following existing California sites:
- Bear - At Hwy 174 Bridge
- Canyon Creek - Below French Lake
- Mi. Yuba - Below Jackson Meadows
Information for all of the above six sites is being provided by Nevada Irrigation District (NID). This is to support boating flow studies, as a part of FERC relicensing.
- Jan 25, 2008:
- Added a alphabetical listing page, of all flow sites currently reported by Dreamflows.
- Jan 16, 2008:
- The Date: field of alert emails shows the time when the alert was generated.
By default, this is reported in Pacific Time (PDT in summer, and PST in winter)
but you can now change this with the Time Zone and Daylight Savings fields in your profile.
- Jan 12, 2008:
- Started reporting flows for the following new Washington site:
- Mi. Snoqualmie - Near Tanner
Dreamflows started reporting this gauge at the request of Matthew Davidson.
- Jan 8, 2008:
- Stopped reporting flows for the following California sites:
- Merced - Red Bud Gauge (data is no longer available)
- Brush Creek - At Take-Out Bridge (data is no longer available)
- Dec 18, 2007:
- Started reporting flows for the following new Oregon site:
- Umatilla - Near Umatilla
Dreamflows started reporting this gauge at the request of Pat Wright.
- Dec 17, 2007:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California sites:
- Ea. Russian - Above Lake Mendocino
- Big Sulphur Cr - Near Cloverdale
- Arroyo Mocho - Near Livermore
- Indian Creek - Below Indian Falls
- West Br Feather - At Whiskey Flat Bridge
- Mi. Cosumnes - At Mt Aukum Rd
- Tuolumne - Above Hetch Hetchy Res
Note 1: Ea. Russian - Above Lake Mendocino is a USGS realtime gauge. It replaces the old CDEC calculation of inflow to Lake Mendocino (previously reported on Dreamflows as Russian - Inflow Lake Mendocino).
Note 2: Dreamflows reported Indian Creek - Below Indian Falls briefly earlier this year as a NOAA/NWS site, and removed it since NWS's rating table of the time was pure fiction (yes, really). However, this is now a CDEC gauge with a proper rating table, so the reported flows should be good.
Note 3: Mi. Cosumnes - At Mt Aukum Rd is a CDEC gauge, and replaces the Dreamflows estimate at Mi. Cosumnes - At No. Fk. Confluence. The new flow site is at a different location though - it's near the put-in for the lower (usual) Middle Cosumnes run, whereas the old estimate was at the take-out.
Note 4: Tuolumne - Above Hetch Hetchy Res is a USGS realtime gauge. It replaces the old daily average inflow calculation (previously reported on Dreamflows as Tuolumne - In Hetch Hetchy Res).
- Dec 10, 2007:
- Started reporting flows for the following new Washington sites:
- Cascade - At Marblemount
- Methow - Near Pateros
- Chiwawa - Near Plain
- Dec 3, 2007:
- Started reporting flows for the following new Oregon sites:
- Winberry Creek - Near Lowell
- Deschutes - Above Lake Billy Chinook
- Crooked - At Crooked River Ranch
- Crooked - Above Lake Billy Chinook
- Metolius - Above Lake Billy Chinook
- Nov 28, 2007:
- Started reporting gauge height for the following new California site:
- Smith - Steel Pipe At Gasquet
"Bearfoot" Brad Camden visits this unofficial gauge site (the twin brown steel pipes at the confluence of the North and Middle Forks of the Smith in Gasquet) each morning, and posts his findings on Dreamflows. Brad runs shuttles on the Smith; for more information visit his web page.
- Nov 25, 2007:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California/Oregon site:
- Klamath - Below J.C. Boyle Plant
and renamed the pre-existing Klamath - At J.C. Boyle Plant site to:
- Klamath - J.C. Boyle Schedule
Thus, Klamath - Below J.C. Boyle Plant is a gauge site reporting actual flow in the river, while Klamath - J.C. Boyle Schedule reports expected scheduled releases.
- Nov 5, 2007:
- Started reporting flows for the following new Oregon sites:
- No. Rogue - Above Lost Creek Lake (realtime gauge site replaces virtual site No. Rogue - Below North Fork Res)
- So. Rogue - Below Imnaha Creek
- Mi. Willamette - Below Hills Creek Res (realtime gauge site replaces the daily Mi. Willamette - Release Hills Creek Res)
- Row River - Above Dorena Lake (realtime site gauge replaces the daily Row River - Inflow Dorena Lake)
- Stopped reporting flows for the following Oregon sites:
- No. Rogue - Below North Fork Res (replaced by No. Rogue - Above Lost Creek Lake, see above)
- Mi. Willamette - Release Hills Creek Res (replaced by Mi. Willamette - Below Hills Creek Res, see above)
- Row River - Inflow Dorena Lake (replaced by Row River - Above Dorena Lake, see above)
- Changed reporting of the following existing Oregon sites:
- Big Butte Cr - Near McLeod (now reporting USGS instead of NOAA data; same data but more consistently reported)
- So. Coquille - At Powers (now reporting USGS instead of NOAA data; same data but more consistently reported)
- McKenzie - Below Trail Bridge Dam (now reporting USGS instead of NOAA data; same data but more consistently reported)
- Quartzville Cr - Near Cascadia (now reporting USGS instead of NOAA data; same data but more consistently reported)
- Clackamas - At Estacada (now reporting USGS instead of NOAA data; same data but more consistently reported)
- No. John Day - At Monument (previously an estimated flow site, now a USGS gauge site)
- Nov 1, 2007:
- Started reporting flows for the following new Idaho sites:
- Blackfoot - Near Shelley
- Camas Creek - Near Blaine
Re-ordered the Idaho flows page to follow the Snake from Wyoming to Washington, i.e. as it flows downstream.
The idea is to group physically close flow sites together on the report, in a reasonably logical way.
- Oct 27, 2007:
- Replaced the link to the current USBR PDF file for
- Trinity River Release Schedule
with a Dreamflows calendar-style page.
It's pretty boring right now since the current flow is 300 cfs all day every day, but it'll be more useful when the 2008 schedule is posted.
Also added a Historical Schedules section to the
- Schedules Page
and added the 2006 Tuolumne River - Release Holm Powerhouse schedule to it.
- Oct 26, 2007:
- Added the following rating tables (Bear - At Hwy 174 Bridge and So. Merced - At Wawona were added this week, the others a little while back):
- Indian Creek - Near Happy Camp
- No. Trinity - At Helena
- Trinity - At Cedar Flat
- Mi. Eel - Near Dos Rios
- Bear - At Hwy 174 Bridge
- So. Merced - At Wawona
- Oct 24, 2007:
- Started reporting flows again for the following California sites:
- So. Merced - At Wawona
- So. Merced - At Hwy 140 Bridge
Previously, So. Merced - At Wawona was reported as an estimate, but now it's an official CDEC gauge site.
Since So. Merced - At Hwy 140 Bridge is an estimate based on So. Merced - At Wawona, and since So. Merced - At Wawona is now a gauge, the So. Merced - At Hwy 140 Bridge estimate is much more reliable than previously.
- Aug 29, 2007:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- Piru Creek - Below Lake Piru
- Jul 26, 2007:
- Added a Search link to the header of every Dreamflows page. Clicking on this enables you to search the entire Dreamflows website (including Bulletin Board), using Google Custom Search.
- Jul 18, 2007:
- Added a guidebook entry for the following Oregon run:
- South Fork Rogue - Gorge Run
- Jul 10, 2007:
- Started publishing the Dreamflows Fantasy Flows page for California/Nevada. This page is a combination of reasonably reliable and predictable scheduled release information, and computer-modeled future flows - the latter being the reason for the name of the page.
- Jul 4, 2007:
- Created a NF Mokelumne Release Schedule page with 2007 scheduled release information.
- Jul 3, 2007:
- Added a glossary of river-running terms page. Most of the entries are serious, but some are just for fun.
- Jul 2, 2007:
- Created a NF Feather Release Schedule page with 2007 scheduled release information.
- Jun 28, 2007:
- Created a Pit River Release Schedule page with 2007 scheduled release information.
- Jun 27, 2007:
- Created a SF American - Chili Bar Release Schedule page with 2007 scheduled release information.
- Jun 23, 2007:
- Dreamflows-generated day and month graphs now feature a vertical line showing when the graph was generated.
The "future" area is shaded.
- Jun 22, 2007:
- Replaced the old photos on the Kings photos page with a new set.
- Jun 18, 2007:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- Tuolumne - Outflow New Don Pedro Res
Both reservoir outflow and elevation are reported, to help you estimate how much of a paddle out you're facing on the Lower "T".
- Jun 13, 2007:
- Started reporting flows for the following new Washington site:
- Joseph Creek - Near Mouth
- Jun 12, 2007:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- Eel - Inflow Van Arsdale
- Jun 7, 2007:
- The existing Dreamflows California site:
- Eel - Rel Lake Pillsbury
is now reporting the daily average outflow from Lake Pillsbury.
Note that this is the flow right below Lake Pillsbury - in winter, the flow on the Pillsbury run itself will likely be somewhat more than this, due to side-streams.
- Jun 7, 2007:
- Changed the way links from flow reports into the bulletin board are handled.
For instance, check the entries under the BBS heading in the realtime report.
The old icon and topic-count system has been largely replaced with the date of the most recent post for the given flow site.
For "recent" posts, the link is displayed as mon day in red, e.g. Jun 1.
For "older" posts, the link is displayed in blue or purple, depending on whether you've recently followed the link or not
(e.g. Jun 1 or Jun 1).
If the post is more than six months old, only the year is displayed, e.g. 2006.
For more detail, click on the BBS heading in one of the reports.
- Jun 4, 2007:
- Started reporting flows for the following new Washington sites:
- Dosewallips - At Brinnon
- So. Stillaguamish - Near Granite Falls
- May 31, 2007:
- Started reporting flows for the following new Washington site:
- No. Nooksack - Below Cascade Creek
- May 30, 2007:
- Started reporting flows for the following new Washington site:
- Washougal - At Hathaway Park
- May 25, 2007:
- Added the following article:
- First Descent of Succor Creek, Oregon
- May 21, 2007:
- Updated the
- Tuolumne River Release Schedule
page with 2007 scheduled release information.
- May 4, 2007:
- Stopped reporting flows for the following Idaho site (since data is no longer available):
- Henrys Fork - Below Coffee Pot Rapids
- May 1, 2007:
- Added Your name and Primary river interest fields to Dreamflows account profiles, so members can share this information if they wish.
- Apr 19, 2007:
- Where possible, for gaged flow sites like the No. American - Inflow Lake Clementine,
Dreamflows provides links to 4-day or 5-day agency-generated graphs, rather than drawing the graphs itself.
Not only does this help to keep down processing overhead, but their graphs present you with the most recent possible data.
Dreamflows is continuing this policy, but is now generating 30-day and 3-year graphs of its own.
The No. American - Inflow Lake Clementine graph shows how this works.
So far, only a few gaged flow sites offer 30-day and 3-year graphs, but in time all gaged flow sites will be upgraded.
- Apr 17, 2007:
- Added a 'Sticky' capability to the Bulletin Board.
When listing a forum, sticky topics are listed first.
This option is settable by the Admin only - to have a topic made sticky, contact chris@dreamflows.com
- Apr 2, 2007:
- Dreamflows has consolidated the Bulletin Board, Alerts and Reports Via Email (now called Email Reports) systems all under one login/username/password umbrella.
The overall result is a somewhat new look, with better access to your Alerts and Email Reports account information, and improved navigation.
Here's more information on what has changed.
- Mar 28, 2007:
- Added the following article:
- Calaveras River - New Hogan to Jenny Lind
- Mar 12, 2007:
- Started reporting flows for the following new Nevada site:
- Carson - Near Carson City
- Mar 7, 2007:
- Started reporting flows for the following new Oregon site:
- Canton Creek - Above Steamboat Creek
- Added a guidebook entry for the following Oregon run:
- Canton Creek - Nine Mile Marker to Steamboat Creek
- Mar 4, 2007:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- No. Yuba - Below New Bullards Bar
- Mar 1, 2007:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- Kidder Creek - Below Babs Fork
- Feb 16, 2007:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- Mark West Creek - Near Santa Rosa
- Jan 23, 2007:
- Added RSS feeds to Dreamflows.
Three feeds are available - one with all pages with new content, one wth all pages except the realtime page,
and the last without any flow report pages.
You can sign up for RSS feeds from the Home Page.
- Jan 13, 2007:
- Added a new rating table for the following California site:
- Kern - At Kernville
- Dec 30, 2006:
- Stopped reporting flows for the following California estimated site:
- So. Salmon - Below Methodist Creek
See the bulletin board entry for details.
- Dec 22, 2006:
- Stopped reporting flows for the following Oregon site (since data is no longer available):
- Blue - Below Tidbits Creek
- Dec 12, 2006:
- On the various cross-listing pages, changed the linking mechanism (from the name of the run on the left, to the name of the guide's website on the right).
Added links to several Cali Product and Jefferson State Creeking online guides.
- Dec 6, 2006:
- Replaced the old phpBB bulletin board with a new home-grown Dreamflows bulletin board.
Also retired the various suppressed flow sites pages, merging each one into its respective normal flow report.
- Sep 5, 2006:
- Replaced the old plain-text headers on all the Dreamflows web pages with a steel-blue banner, which in turn includes common useful links.
- Aug 30, 2006:
- On the various cross-listing pages, added a link from each flow site to the corresponding graph for that site.
Each graph link is identified by the
symbol.
- Aug 29, 2006:
- Added Daily Flows, Realtime Flows and Dreamflows Home links to the top of graphs generated by Dreamflows.
This makes it easier to get to Dreamflows if you've come to the graph from somewhere else (a bookmark, say).
- Aug 9, 2006:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- Mi. San Joaquin - At Devil's Postpile
- Jul 31, 2006:
- Added model limit lines to those Dreamflows-generated graphs which are driven by statistical estimating models.
In general, such models are valid only between a range of flows.
The lo (brown) and hi (purple) model limit lines, respectively, show the lower and higher limits of the valid range.
Also, the "look" of the graphs has changed somewhat.
- Jul 11, 2006:
- Created a CSV Conversions page so visitors can load Dreamflows reports into:
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Access
- Jun 27, 2006:
- Added "Current Flow" information to most online guidebook entries.
- Jun 23, 2006:
- Updated the guidebook entry for:
- Susan River - Susanville Run (Devil's Corral to Hobo Camp)
- Jun 17, 2006:
- Started generating reports in Dreamflows CSV format:
- Realtime
- Daily - California and Nevada
- Daily - Northwest States
- Daily - Four Corners
- Jun 7, 2006:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- Cache Creek - Below Clear Lake
- Jun 1, 2006:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- San Joaquin - At Miller Crossing
- May 25, 2006:
- Started reporting flows for the following new Idaho site:
- Boise - At Glenwood Bridge
- May 7, 2006:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California sites:
- Mono Creek - Below Lake Edison
- San Joaquin - Below Mammoth Pool Res
- Apr 13, 2006:
- Started reporting flows for the following new Washington site:
- Elwha - Above Lake Mills
- Mar 25, 2006:
- Added a trigger levels page.
These values determine if a flow is marked "low", "okay", "optimum" or "high" on the Dreamflows reports.
- Mar 17, 2006:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California sites:
- Piru Creek - Above Pyramid Lake
- Sespe Creek - Near Fillmore
- Mar 13, 2006:
- Added a guidebook entry for the following California run:
- So. Feather - Forbestown Gorge Run (Forbestown Diversion Dam to Ponderosa Reservoir)
- Feb 24, 2006:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California sites:
- Putah Creek - Below Lake Berryessa
- So. Feather - Below Forbestown Div Dam
- Jan 30, 2006:
- Added a new Dreamflows Alerts "Forgotten Password" page to allow forgetful subscribers to reset their passwords.
- Jan 4, 2006:
- Started adding links to rating tables (where available) on the CA Cross-Listing page.
The
symbol (on the cross-listing page) is a link to the rating table for that gauge.
Only those rating tables for flow sites which are currently being reported by Dreamflows are accessible from the cross-listing pages.
Obsolete ones (which may be useful to you since the gauges are obsolete and therefore not reported, but may still be physically present on the river)
are still accessible from the Whitewater Gauge Rating Tables page.
- Dec 30, 2005:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- So. Salmon - At Forks Of Salmon
Scott Harding observed that the existing "So. Salmon - Below Methodist Creek" estimate
reported by Dreamflows, which is based on historical USGS data, seems to always be lower than actual.
So, he has developed a formula for this new virtual gage located 6 miles downstream, at the South Fork bridge at Forks Of Salmon.
Note that this is a work in progress - the formula may well change as the season progresses.
- Dec 14, 2005:
- Regenerated the rating tables on the Dreamflows whitewater gauge rating tables page,
downloading new rating tables (where available) in the process.
The new format includes the rating table in numerical form.
- Dec 6, 2005:
- Stopped reporting flows for the following California sites (since gauge data is no longer available):
- No. Trinity - At Helena
- No. Eel - At Mina Bridge
- Black Butte - Above Middle Fork Eel
- Mi. Eel - Below Black Butte River
The No. Trinity and No. Eel sites will most likely come back (as estimates) in due course.
- Dec 1, 2005:
- Started displaying confidence-range information on daily and monthly graphs for those flow sites which Dreamflows estimates,
and for which confidence-range information is available.
- Nov 10, 2005:
- Added a river levels page, so
you can report the river flow you believe you had on a run which was estimated by Dreamflows.
Also, added confidence information (for estimated flows) to the Dreamflows reports.
- Nov 9, 2005:
- Changed the formatting of the flow reports.
Previously, links weren't underlined (since this makes the text easier to read).
However, this caused confusion for visitors who are used to links' being underlined.
So, links are once more underlined.
This also paves the way for other changes coming soon.
- Oct 20, 2005:
- Stopped reporting flows for the following California sites (since the estimates are apparently too unreliable):
- Pit - Below Fall River Mills
- Merced - At Red Bud
- So. Merced - At Wawona
- So. Merced - At Hwy 140 Bridge
- Oct 18, 2005:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- So. Silver Cr - Below Ice House Res
- Oct 7, 2005:
- Added a guidebook entry for the following Oregon run:
- Rogue River - Nugget-Powerhouse Run (Below Raygold Dam to Gold Run)
- Aug 16, 2005:
- Stopped reporting flows for the following California sites (since data is no longer available):
- Deer Creek - At Hwy 32
- No. Yuba - Rel New Bullards Bar
- Camp Cr - Near Somerset
- May 10, 2005:
- Added a bulletin board to Dreamflows, with the following
forum categories: Hazards, Releases, Access Issues, General.
- Apr 28, 2005:
- Added a guidebook entry for the following California run:
- Susan River - Susanville Run (Devil's Corral to Hobo Camp)
- Apr 22, 2005:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California sites:
- Susan - At Susanville
- Fresno - Inflow Hidden Dam
- Apr 14, 2005:
- Started reporting flows for the following new Idaho site:
- Teton - Near Driggs
Also, started reporting flows for the following new Wyoming site:
- Encampment - Near Encampment
- Apr 13, 2005:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- Sacramento - Rel Box Canyon Dam
- Mar 29, 2005:
- Added a dedicated Feather River photos page.
- Nov 12, 2004:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- Mill Creek - Above Kings River
- Oct 25, 2004:
- Added a guidebook entry for the following California run:
- Feather - Upper South Fork (Little Grass Valley Reservoir to South Fork Diversion Dam)
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- So. Feather - Below Little Grass Valley
- Jun 28, 2004:
- Added a guidebook entry for the following Oregon run:
- Carberry Creek - Above Applegate Lake (Road access to Applegate Lake)
- Started reporting flows for the following new Oregon site:
- Carberry Creek - Above Applegate Lake
- Jun 24, 2004:
- Started reporting flows for the following new Colorado sites:
- Eagle - At Red Cliff
- Colorado - Near CO-UT State Line
- Gunnison - Below Gunnison Tunnel
- North Platte - Near Northgate
- Yampa - Near Maybell
- May 19, 2004:
- Renamed
- So. Salmon - Near Forks of Salmon
to
- So. Salmon - Below Methodist Creek
as being more descriptive.
- Apr 17, 2004:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- Kern - Below Democrat
- Mar 10, 2004:
- Renamed the "Dreamflows Race/Rodeo Schedules" page to the
Dreamflows - Event Schedules page.
- Feb 12, 2004:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- Dinkey Creek - At Dinkey Meadow
- Jan 28, 2004:
- Added a dedicated Kaweah photos page.
- Jan 13, 2004:
- Started reporting flows for the following new Idaho sites:
- No. Payette - At McCall
- So. Payette - Near Garden Valley
- So. Payette - Below Deer Creek
- Jan 12, 2004:
- Added a guidebook entry for the following California run:
- Kern - Jungle Run (Below Lake Isabella to Borel Powerhouse)
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- Kern - Above Borel Powerhouse
- Jan 7, 2004:
- Stopped reporting flows for the following California sites (since data is no longer available):
- Clavey - Near Hunter Bend
- No. Tuolumne - At Riverside Campground
One or both sites may possibly come back (as rough estimates) during snowmelt.
- Dec 29, 2003:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California sites:
- Cuyama - Below Buckhorn Canyon
- Santa Margarita - Near Temecula
- West Walker - At Walker
- Dec 16, 2003:
- Linked all the Dreamflows photos in a set (e.g. all the photos on the American photos page) in a ring,
using forward and back arrows.
This enables you to more easily navigate through all the photos in a set.
- Dec 12, 2003:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- Klamath - At Klamath Glen
- Started reporting flows for the following new Oregon site:
- Rogue - At Grants Pass
- Started reporting flows for the following old Oregon site (since data is once more available):
- McKenzie - Below Trail Bridge Dam
- Dec 8, 2003:
- Started assigning colors to river flow ranges in the reports: blue for frozen, yellow for low flow, green for okay flow, red for high flow, grey for unknown.
- Nov 27, 2003:
- Started reporting river water temperatures for all sites for which temperature information is available.
The temperature information is placed in the Comments field of each report.
- Nov 21, 2003:
- Started adding weather information links to the Dreamflows Daily
and Realtime flow reports.
Note the weather icon key in the Notes section at the bottom of each report page.
- Nov 18, 2003:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California sites:
- No. Kings - Above Dinkey Creek
- Dinkey Creek - Above North Fork Kings
- So. King - Below Cedar Grove
- Nov 13, 2003:
- Stopped reporting flows for the following Utah sites (since data is no longer available):
- Price - Near Helper
- Provo - Below Deer Creek Dam
- Nov 11, 2003:
- Started adding weather information links to the Dreamflows California Cross-Listing page.
Note the Special Symbols table near the top of the page.
Weather links for others sites will follow in due course.
- Nov 10, 2003:
- Stopped reporting flows for
- Kings - Below North Fork
- and started reporting flows for
- Kings - Inflow Pine Flat Res
- instead.
Dreamflows used to report Inflow Pine Flat Res, then switched to Below North Fork.
However, this turns out to have been a mistake - Inflow Pine Flat Res is the better site for determining the flow on the Hidden Kings run.
- Oct 24, 2003:
- Stopped reporting flows for the following California site (since data is no longer available):
- Mad River - Below Ruth Lake
- Sep 29, 2003:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new Nevada site:
- Truckee - At Reno
- Sep 18, 2003:
- Added a new Index to Dreamflows-Generated Flow Graphs page.
- Sep 4, 2003:
- Added a dedicated South Fork Silver Creek ("South Silver") photos page.
- Aug 2, 2003:
- Started plotting 3-year graphs for the following (existing) California sites:
- Cache Creek - At Rumsey Bridge
- Tuolumne - At Merals Pool
- Tuolumne - At Mushroom
- Kern - At Kernville
- Others will follow if there appears to be sufficient interest in long-term plots like these.
- Jul 26, 2003:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California site:
- Mi. Stanislaus - At Mount Knight
- Jul 13, 2003:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California site:
- Stanislaus - At Camp Nine
- Jul 5, 2003:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California site:
- McCloud - At Ah-Di-Na
- Jun 12, 2003:
- Started reporting flow information for the following new California site:
- Mi. Yuba - Below Jackson Meadows
- Jun 3, 2003:
- Started reporting spill information for the following new California sites:
- Rubicon - Below Hell Hole Dam
- San Joaquin - Below Redinger Lake
- Jun 2, 2003:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California sites:
- So. Battle Creek - Above NF Confluence
- Battle Creek - Above Baldwin Creek
- So. San Joaquin - Rel Florence Lake
- May 22, 2003:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- San Joaquin - Chawanakee Gorge
- May 14, 2003:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California sites:
- Cherry Creek - Below Cherry Lake
- Cherry Creek - Above Holm Powerhouse
- Stopped reporting flows for the following California sites (since data is no longer available):
- Mi. Tuolumne - Above So. Fork Confluence
- So. Tuolumne - At Rainbow Pool
- May 1, 2003:
- Started reporting flows for the following new Washington site:
- Klickitat - Near Glenwood
- Apr 23, 2003:
- Started reporting flows for the following new Washington site:
- Li. White Salmon - At Willard Fish Hatchery
- Apr 22, 2003:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- Tuolumne - In New Don Pedro Res
- Apr 13, 2003:
- Started reporting actual gauge heights for the following California run:
- Merced - Red Bud Gauge
- This is in addition to the traditional Merced - At Red Bud Dreamflows estimate.
Note the distinction between the two - one is a flow estimate, the other real gauge height measurements.
In time (soon, hopefully), we'll have a rating table to convert the Red Bud gauge heights to flows,
at which time things should become somewhat simpler.
- Apr 11, 2003:
- Added a guidebook entry for the following California run:
- Alameda Creek - Niles Canyon (Sunol to Niles through Niles Canyon)
- Apr 4, 2003:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- Pit - Below Pit 1 Powerhouse
- Mar 31, 2003:
- Added a rating table graph for this California site:
- So. Yuba - At Hwy 49 Bridge
- Mar 16, 2003:
- Updated the Dreamflows-reported rating table graphs, for the cases where new rating tables were available.
- Mar 6, 2003:
- Added a dedicated Merced photos page.
- Feb 28, 2003:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- Deer Creek - At Hwy 32
- Feb 17, 2003:
- Added a new Race/Rodeo/Wildwater Schedules page.
- Feb 7, 2003:
- Stopped reporting flows for
- Kings - Inflow Pine Flat Res
- and started reporting flows for
- Kings - Below North Fork
- instead. The two sites may sound similar in concept, but are quite different. The old site
reported the calculated total inflow to Pine Flat Reservoir, which included more than just the inflow
due to the Kings. Also, because the calculation was based on change in reservoir storage, it wasn't
very accurate and bounced around a lot. The new site reports the flow right above the reservoir
and is the flow on the Kings River only. Also, since it's a gauge, it's much more accurate.
- Feb 6, 2003:
- Added a new Frequently Asked Questions page.
- Jan 31, 2003:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- Pescadero Creek - Near Pescadero
- Jan 26, 2003:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California sites:
- Black Butte - Above Middle Fork Eel
- Mi. Eel - Below Black Butte River
- Truckee - At Boca Bridge
- Also, once again reporting flows for the following California site (it's back online):
- Mattole - Near Ettersburg
- Jan 12, 2003:
- Added a dedicated Dry Meadow Creek photos page.
- Jan 11, 2003:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California sites:
- Kaweah - Below Terminus Dam
- Tule - Near Springville
- Jan 9, 2003:
- Added a new Articles index page.
- Jan 8, 2003:
- Added a new flows report page for Wyoming, with these sites:
- CF Yellowstone - Near Belfry
- Yellowstone - Below Yellowstone Lake
- Jan 6, 2003:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- Alameda Creek - Near Niles
- Jan 1, 2003:
- Stopped reporting flows for the following California site (since data is no longer available):
- Mattole - Near Ettersburg
- Dec 29, 2002:
- Stopped reporting flows for the following Oregon sites (since data is no longer available):
- McKenzie - Below Trail Bridge Dam
- Sandy - At Marmot
- Dec 22, 2002:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California/Nevada site:
- E. Fk Carson - Near Gardnerville
- Dec 13, 2002:
- On the California flow report pages, split
- California Sierra Nevada
- into two separate zones:
- California Sierra - West Slope
- California Sierra - East Slope
- Dec 6, 2002:
- Started adding gauge location information for rivers reported by Dreamflows.
The information (when present) appears right below the river/place name on the cross-listing page entry for the flow site.
To see a map of the gauge location and surrounding terrain, click on the
symbol.
Here's an example.
- Dec 2, 2002:
- Added a new flows report page for Montana, with these sites:
- No. Blackfoot - Near Ovando
- Blackfoot - Near Bonner
- Clark Fork - At St. Regis
- Prospect Creek - At Thompson Falls
- No. Flathead - Near Columbia Falls
- Mi. Flathead - Near West Glacier
- So. Flathead - Above Hungry Horse Res
- Swan - Near Bigfork
- Flathead - Near Polson
- Kootenai - Below Libby Dam
- Yaak - Above Kootenai Confluence
- Madison - Below Hebgen Lake
- Madison - Below Ennis Lake
- Gallatin - Near Gallatin Gateway
- Yellowstone - At Corwin Springs
- Yellowstone - Near Livingston
- Boulder - At Big Timber
- Stillwater - Near Absarokee
- West Rosebud Cr - Near Roscoe
- Rock Creek - Near Red Lodge
- CF Yellowstone - Near Belfry
- Nov 25, 2002:
- Added a guidebook entry for the following California run:
- Pauley Creek - Upper Run (3rd Divide to 2nd Divide)
- Nov 9, 2002:
- Added a guidebook entry for the following California run:
- Canyon Creek - Upper Canyon (French Lake to Bowman Lake)
- Nov 8, 2002:
- Started reporting flows for the following new Oregon site:
- No. Rogue - Below North Fork Res
- Oct 31, 2002:
- Added a dedicated Tuolumne photos page.
- Oct 19, 2002:
- Added a sequence of Blair Bowker running Lumsden Falls on the Upper Tuolumne (Cherry Creek run).
- Oct 15, 2002:
- Added a sequence of Brett Hudson running Lewis' Leap on the Upper Tuolumne (Cherry Creek run).
- Oct 11, 2002:
- Started offering Dreamflows Alerts for FREE.
This is a service which will page you when rivers of your choice start running.
It has a sophisticated set of options so you can fine-tune the behavior to suit you.
Naturally, that makes it a little complex.
However, selecting Normal Alerts and choosing the defaults yields intuitive behavior, makes life much easier, and is probably what you want anyway.
- Oct 9, 2002:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California sites:
- Mattole - Near Ettersburg
- No. Cache Creek - Above Indian Valley Res
- Arroyo Valle - Above Lake Del Valle
- Aug 13, 2002:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- Kings - Inflow Pine Flat Res
- and added a guidebook entry for the corresponding run:
- Lower Kings - Hidden Kings Run
- Aug 8, 2002:
- Added a guidebook entry for the following California run:
- Upper South Yuba - Spaulding Run
- Aug 2, 2002:
- Added a guidebook entry for the following California run:
- South Fork Silver Creek - Autobahn to Icehouse Reservoir
- Jul 21, 2002:
- Added a guidebook entry for the following Oregon run:
- North Fork Rogue - Takelma Gorge
- Jun 10, 2002:
- Added a guidebook entry for the following California run:
- Upper South Yuba - Summit Run
- May 17, 2002:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California sites:
- No. Feather - Below Rock Creek Dam
- No. Feather - Below Grizzly Creek
- May 5, 2002:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California site:
- So. Yuba - At Kingvale Bridge
- Apr 12, 2002:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California sites:
- No. Mokelumne - Below Salt Springs Res
- No. Mokelumne - Above Tiger Cr Afterbay
- No. Mokelumne - Below Tiger Creek Dam
- No. Mokelumne - Below West Point P.H.
- Mokelumne - Below Electra P.H.
- Feb 28, 2002:
- Started reporting flows for the following new California sites:
- Brush Creek - At Take-Out Bridge
- Note:
Minor changes to Dreamflows earlier than Feb 28, 2002 are lost in the mists of antiquity - and, really, who cares?
However the following major milestones are known:
- Aug 8, 2001:
- Started providing Northwest States and Four Corners daily reports (via web and email).
- Feb 23, 2000:
- Started providing California/Nevada realtime reports on the web.
- Feb 1, 2000:
- Started providing California/Nevada daily reports on the web.
- Dec 8, 1998:
- Dreamflows is born: delivered the first flow report via email (to Elaine Baden).