The Elbow was pretty high yesterday afternoon; it's down somewhat today. The above photo is from noonish today; you can see the water line and the strip of dead leaves and twigs from yesterday's high water line.
This was entirely a man-made flow. They were running it high to drain down the reservoir to hold the incoming water. Here's the Elbow River below the Glenmore dam:
And here it is above the dam in the Weaselhead, not even getting to low-normal (1st quartile):
Which worked; they drained about 1/3 of the reservoir on Sunday:
The Bow is high normal both here and upstream, but the Ghost reservoir (note: longer time scale in graph) has a lot of room.
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