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California Department of Water Resources
Division of Flood Management
This page is geared for recreational users. Complete
data access may be obtained through the
CDEC Home Page.
Tomales Bay kayakers might find
Tomasini Point or
Golden Gate
weather of interest.
Folsom Lake elevation
is relevent to boaters on the
South Fork American River.
Scheduled Releases
from New Melones Reservoir
might be of interest to Stanislaus River boaters.
Plots of daily
temperature (minimum/maximum) are also available; for example,
Sawyers Bar
on the Salmon River (California). An explanation of the Tuolumne River gages that would be of use to recreational boaters.
Please note that these stations are funded and operated using funds budgeted for public safety, flood forecasting, and water supply evaluation. This recreation page is extremely optional for us; using the data here for purposes other than these, while welcomed, is at your own risk. We aren't required to provide general public access to these data in this fashion, and we hope you agree that your tax dollars should be solely used to fund the programs for which they were budgeted.
Division of Flood Management
Recreational River Conditions
Stage and Flow Data
You can retrieve data from recent hours or previous daily averages. Select a gage location from this list of river stage stations, or use this general interface to all types of stations. These include rain gages, snow pillows, air temperature, stream gages, reservoir elevation and storage data.
New Stations
There are a number of new river stage stationsavailable, due to funding resulting from the January floods. They are mainly in the Central Valley.Examples
Other resources
- Cool Button Interface
- River stages from National Weather Service; Rainfall and River page
- Sacramento | Russian R | San Joaquin reservoir inflow forecast. Note: these are only updated during periods of low flow.
- Hourly data from the US Geological Survey
- California River Information from OA-UCD.
- Data from American Whitewater Affiliation
- North Fork American data notes
Please note that these stations are funded and operated using funds budgeted for public safety, flood forecasting, and water supply evaluation. This recreation page is extremely optional for us; using the data here for purposes other than these, while welcomed, is at your own risk. We aren't required to provide general public access to these data in this fashion, and we hope you agree that your tax dollars should be solely used to fund the programs for which they were budgeted.
This page is maintained by CDEC; visit them or mail for more information.
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