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Hazard CA Class II

Low head dam

American Whitewater 34.4256, -118.7620

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Gauge Conditions

Piru Creek below Santa Felicia DAM CA Upstream Primary

Runnable: 150.0 – 1,000.0 CFS

Data from American Whitewater & USGS

CDEC Flow Data California

PIRU CREEK PIR Primary

Elevation: 2,600 ft

Data from California Data Exchange Center (CDEC)

Photo

Photo courtesy of American Whitewater

Description

This dam had about a 2 foot drop over most of its width at 250 cfs. (sept 2, 2007) There was a chute on far river right, but it ran into thick hanging branches from a tree. We ran it a few feet out from the right where there was still plenty of water but no branches. The rest of the dam looked shallow enough that we could have scraped and pushed our way over. The reversal across the base of the dam was tiny at 250 cfs, but could become dangerous at some higher flow.

This dam is an abondoned USGS stream gauge with the gauging tower on the river right.