What this watershed has, and what we actually know

California has 4,469 subwatersheds and 559 of them contain an active stream gage that measures flow. 37.4 % of the state's 60,569 licensed diversions sit in watersheds nobody currently measures — and two thirds of that gap is a network that was switched off, not one that was never built.

This portal reports availability and quality per watershed, and states on every number whether it was measured or modelled. Descend the hierarchy and watch the records drop out.

Water Resources

Russian River · HUC8 18010110
availability is a modelled number wherever there is no gage — this app says which
THE DESCENT block width ∝ stream length · colour = share of that length SB 19 classes as gaged · hatched = diversions here, no measurement · click to descend · ← → step · Esc up a level
loading the Russian River…