Sunday, August 26, 2012

Still enough water to paddle (for now)

This morning I rode my bike downtown and paddled for an hour.  The river level was about -9.1 feet on the Memphis gauge.  The forecast for the coming week has it dropping some, but not below -10 feet.









About a third of the canoe and kayak dock on our marina has run aground.  During "normal" water levels (10 to 20 feet, say), the horizontal distance from the dock to the bank is 50 feet or more.  As you can see here, that distance ranges from zero to about four feet right now.
















The water beneath the rest of the marina is becoming alarmingly shallow.  Some of the finger piers are riding up, and I expect some of the deeper-drafting boats are grazing the bottom.

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