FORESTVILLE (BCN) – With a big storm anticipated to hit the Bay Area on Sunday, a rubber dam inside the Russian River near Forestville is about to empty Saturday to forestall hurt to the dam from extreme river flows, authorities said.
Sonoma Water, Sonoma County’s water firm, is deflating the rubber dam when the Russian river’s circulation forecasts current the river reaching 2,000 cubic ft per second, the corporate said. The atmospheric river flowing into the Bay Area on Sunday is anticipated to increase river flows to better than 19,000 cubic ft per second.
Inflatable dam on the Russian River near Forestville. (CBS)
The rubber dam is located merely downstream from the Wohler Bridge inside the river and is usually raised inside the spring or early summer season, when water needs improve. It creates a pool of water that improves the provision ranges of Sonoma Water inside the house, the corporate said.
A eternal “fish ladder,” a seemingly oxymoronic phrase describing a development that aids fish in navigating obstacles, permits for fish passage as a result of the dam is raised. The fish ladder moreover permits Sonoma Water to rely grownup salmon and steelhead migrations with its underwater video system inside the fish ladder.
When totally deflated, the rubber dam rests flat on the underside of the Russian River.
The corporate well-known that even with the most recent sequence of storms, the realm is properly behind common precipitation totals and reservoirs keep at historically low ranges.
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