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| RIVER: | Rock River, Indianford Dam |
| LOCATION: | Indianford, WI |
| PUT-IN: | Roadside park |
| TAKE-OUT: | same |
| SHUTTLE: | Carry back to your car. |
| DIST: | N/A |
| TIME: | PnP |
| CLASS: | II |
| CHARACTER: | Outflow from a dam, in a big (and 'iffy' water quality) river. |
| GAUGE: | Mostly visual inspection. While there is a U.S.G.S. gauge on the river here, it is upstream of the dam. Conversion of stage (feet) to flow (cfs) relies on a weird scale which is dependant upon how many of the five gates are open. This wave is completely dependant on whether the gates are open sufficiently. This may not be directly tied to levels. |
| SEASON: | Early spring or after heavy rain. |
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When water is being spilled from the gates on river left at this dam, a fine looking wave appears, along with a long wavetrain as the flow piles up into the slower moving river below the spillway. Caution is urged. The entire right side of the dam spills onto a shallow cement slab, which dumps out across shallow rock. Best that I can tell, the outflow of the river left chute is deep and free of rocks.
(Vidcaps (photos) taken March, 2001 at about 2900cfs on Indianford gauge.) |