Cosumnes River Flooded

Went by the Cosumnes River Preserve last Saturday and found the walkway flooded.  River running high and muddy.  Generally speaking ... how long does it take for the river to get back down to normal levels ?  I know it depends the intensity and duration of rain, but is there a general rule ?

General rule is the river goes down once water inflow upstream tapers off. Another round of storms coming. Gonna be a while.

https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=MCNC1little helpful prediction


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Monitoring the Cosumnes Flows online at two points upstream, Michigan Bar and McConnell (Hwy 99), is help full as is visual inspection of the water condition at Twin Cities Road.

https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=MHBC1

https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=MCNC1

https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=THTC1

You want to be on the river the first morning the water is fishable because a fresh batch of stripers often moves up into the lower river with each flood event. The water was starting to clear yesterday. I suspect it may be fishable for a brief period before the next storm effects reach the CRP.

Good info, thanks.  I didn't know about the NOAA site.  Bass fishing was good before the rain, so I was looking forward to getting back out there.

I may as well mention that the Sacramento County flood alert system has real time water level sensors for many local water ways. The Point Pleasant Beach-Stone Lakes dashboard has all of the Cosumnes gages. Currently the level at MIchigan Bar is rising and the levels down stream are receding. The sensor at Bensons Ferry (Cosumnes mouth) is malfunctioning as of 2018-03-2011:13 PDT.

https://www.sacflood.org/dashboard/?dashboard=e2917c3d-04e0-4c17-9818-88b55be85449

Sacflood also has a sensor for Dry Creek (south) which discharges some water into the Cosumnes via Grizzly Slough, which often is dirty long after the river has cleared, at a point that is almost as far as stripers go up the river.

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.2532913,-121.4063807,108m/data=!3m1!1e3