Buffalo River, Ponca to Kyles Landing (March 2008)

 
This is what the river was like that day.  Of course, being an Ozarks stream it was rapids and a bend or two followed by a slow deep pool and then it repeats.  Pictured here is the river going around Horseshoe Bend right before the Hemmed-In stop.

The USGS gage at Boxley read 3.8 feet and the NPS gage at the Ponca bridge read 3.1 feet, while the BOC reported the Ponca low water bridge at 10 inches of air space.  For reference, I saved the graphs and data from the day.

The BOC also caught some great photos of flood waters as they came up.  Read their text in the link above and then check out the photos.

 
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