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chris
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Posted: Nov 15, 2006 Post Subject: Weber Creek Gauge - Placerville, CA
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| One of our industrious local paddlers, who wishes to remain anonymous, reports that "There's now an informal gauge painted on the Green Valley Road bridge over Weber Creek, maybe a mile west of the Raley's on Placerville Drive. It's painted on the north side of the bridge footing, dark blue. It is graduated every six inches with numbers on the feet marks.
You can see it from the top of the bridge (south side) but you might have to use binoculars to read it. If you walk down to the creek from the bridge, you can see the numbers. The numbers probably need to be "whitened up" when the weather dries out a bit. The "3 ft" number is blurred, but 3 1/2 ft is the top of the base of the footing where there is an eight inch concrete ledge.
The guage goes down to "zero" (late summer flows) and up to six feet; overkill. Anybody doing the creek at six feet will be dodging trees and ignoring the advisory to evacuate Placerville."
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