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FLOW RATES
The rains have been a welcome relief and the river flows were considerably better this month than they have been the last several months. However, we are by no means out of the drought but the area sure has greened up in a matter of days. Cooler weather should be upon us soon and the trees and plants should be using less water. Let’s all hope and pray that we will continue to get rainfall.
The Dam Crossing in the Nueces Canyon is looking better. The Dam had a flow rate of 15,174 gpm (gallons per minute) back in April now it is down to 7,145 gpm (gallons per minute), but that is up considerably from 1,200 gpm last month.
McDonald Crossing on the Nueces River; flow rate went up from 4,518 gpm (gallons per minute) last month to 5,559 gpm this month and the crossing is still not looking very good at all. There is quite a growth of vegetation at the crossing and it just does not look very attractive at this time.
The Rancho Real Crossing on the West Prong of the Frio River showed a slight increase this reading up from 3,669 gpm in September to 6,102 gpm this month. It is still a long way from where it was this time last year at 8,683 gpm.
The Kent Creek Crossing on Highway 336 North is the most alarming of all the crossings that we check and was down to a flow of 133 gpm in September. This reading went up to 1,256 gpm this month but is still lower than in October of last year which had a reading of 1,534 gpm.
The Mill Creek Crossing on the East prong of the Frio has held pretty consistent this summer and had a flow of 7,145 gpm. The May flow was 6,644 gpm at the Mill Creek Crossing and this was the first reading we had at this crossing. We are up a little over 500 gallons per minute.
Leakey Springs is another crossing that has been rather alarming; at this time with a flow of 1,619 gpm up from 632 gpm last month. The crossing still looks decent but the flow rate in October of last year was 7,566 gpm so you can see that is
quite a reduction.
The Alto Frio Crossing had a flow of 4,116 gpm this month which is an increase from last month’s reading of 1,721 gpm. But this is well below the reading of last October which was 24,009 gpm.
The final crossing we checked this month was the one in the Frio River Place Subdivision and the flow was 3,698 gpm up from 1,655 gpm last month. This reading is slightly higher than the initial reading we had in June of 3,472 gpm.
These flow rates as you can see are not good especially if you compare to this time last year, but on the bright side at least there is still some flow and they are up from last month. As I said at the beginning of the article continue to conserve where you can and pray for more rain to come.