River Runs High

What a wet year this has been. River watchers have their own benchmarks to judge the amount of water in the Wood River. Some of mine include how far I have to walk my kayak in the summertime shallows of the Upper Wood, how the water flows over the falls in Barberville (does it dribble, spill, or rage), and my favorite, the USGS gaging station for the Wood. The graph tells no lies, look what the flow is now (line) versus the 67 year average (triangles). There is a lot of water in that river (flow data as of 4:00 PM, Friday, 24 July 2009)!