Auburn Ravine
Auburn Ravine east of Lincoln, where a fish passage replaced Nevada Irrigation District's Hemphill Dam in 2022 after Water Audit California sued in 2019, opening about six miles of the ravine to migrating fish. No public agency publishes a stream gage here.
Location: 38.89673, -121.25189
No readings yet from this gage
Where the gage is
The stream's location: 38.896731°, -121.251885° — View on OpenStreetMap
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About this data
Water level at gage: depth of water above the sensor, relative to the level recorded when the logger was installed. It is not a surveyed river stage and can't be compared between gages.
7-day average daily high temperature (7DADM): the mean of the daily maximum water temperature over seven consecutive local days, calculated only when all seven days are complete. The steelhead bands below are applied to that value, never to a single reading.
All times shown are gage-local time (America/Los_Angeles), the same zone the site is configured for; data files carry UTC timestamps.
| Band | 7-day average daily high | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Good | at or below 60.8 °F | Good for young steelhead |
| Stressful | above 60.8 °F and below 71.6 °F | Stressful: slower growth, more disease |
| Dangerous | at or above 71.6 °F | Dangerous: can kill steelhead |
| Federal reference | 68.0 °F | Federal recovery-plan limit for suitable summer rearing. |
| Heat spike | 75.2 °F | A single reading or daily high at or above this value. |
Biological thresholds from published research (EPA 2003 and others), not legal limits. Sources: EPA Region 10 (2003) Tables 1, 3, and 4; NMFS 2016 recovery plan, Vol. IV; WDOE 2002 via Carter 2005; Nielsen et al. 1994; Sullivan et al. 2000.
Thresholds are pending scientific review.
Seasonal limits for spawning and smoltification are configured but not applied.
Measurements come from LI-COR Cloud loggers and configured CDEC stations, published by Water Audit California.