Topic: Petawawa Town Section

[Jeffrey J Templeton]

Scoped it out after work today and took some photos.  It's running 120cms.  How does Saturday sound say around noon to give you Ottawa folk time to get here?

[chris.s]

i would also be up for a run this weekend

[Jeffrey J Templeton]

I'm game for a run on the weekend.

[ChristianG]

Oops... Must be senile. I looked at the wrong gauge--Ottawa was bookmarked...

The Petawawa is running around 100 m3/s right now. Last year's peak was three times that. So it is just starting its flood, last November peak was just under this level.

I did the HOHW race at 200 m3/s, big but lots of fun.

At 100, ok in a playboat, but personally I'd bring a bigger boat!

So... Any taker?

--C.

[ChristianG]

So... We have a problem. Environment Canada has added 55 or meters to the Petawawa gauge as compared to last time I checked. When did that happen? Does anybody know what number exactly was added?

Anyway, if you plot from March 2013 to now, you will see that the level is the same as it was last November, and this corresponds still to pre-flood levels. Discharge is about 2000 m3/s, and last year's peak was double that.

So we have lots of time.

Still, anybody interested?

--C.

[ChristianG]

Roger, just rent a big boat!

--C.

[lafreniere.luc]

"Good"... hmmm considering I participated in Hell or High Water... and if my memory serves me correctly... there were about 90 participants in the "long boat" category and when the "short boat" category occurred, only about 24 of us were crazy enough to try it. So I would say it's a much better idea to do that in a creek boat... it's big and meaty.

But 24 of us did do it in a playboat... just expect to be thrashed around.

[rgplouffe819]

is it a good run for a play boat?

[Jeffrey J Templeton]

FYI the Petawawa Town section is free of ice and booming right now.  It's also rising very fast and may be too big to run by the weekend if the rain keeps up though.