The Navarro. Courtesy, Clinton Steeds.
I’m hooked on a new drama, called the CFS. It’s not a crime show, exactly, though there’s potential tragedy enough. It’s more of a reality show about Anderson Valley, starring the Navarro River watershed. Everyone living or working in the valley plays a bit part. Episodes arrive daily, via the internet.
One of the most dramatic installments was last week, after we finally got some rain. It was short and densely plotted, like they all are. And it contained the first ray of hope in weeks: “Streamflow of 217 cfs exceeds subscriber threshold of 0.05 at 2013-03-06 10:15:00 PST 11468000 00060 NAVARRO R NR NAVARRO CA.”
Translated, the message meant that at mid-morning on March 6th, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) gaging station on the Navarro River was measuring a flow of 217 cubic feet of water per second – or CFS. This was an exciting turn of events, because the previous morning the CFS at the gage was only 55. So the rain was clearly making a difference. The next day, after the rain had soaked the watershed for 36 hours, the CFS had climbed to 377.
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