WB Brandywine

[fadeaway263]

I entered the WB at about 11:30AM a half mile above the picnic park [Rt 52 Bridge]. The water was clear as a bell and the wading was easy. About 2 hours later I noticed the water was getting filled with leaves and twigs and was becoming very murky. The current was getting so swift and the water rose at least 6 inches. I had to exit the stream. Drove a 1/2 mile upstream and the river was chocolate milk. No sign of thunderstorm activity and I think I would have known if a storm occurred upstream in the Coatesville area. I drove down to the stretch behind the Brandywine River Museum and the water was clear. Can anyone explain this? I am wondering if there is some kind of flood measures taken upstream.

 

[PSUFishMenace]

There were some very, very small thunderstorms in the northern part of the county starting around 2:30 p.m. eventually most of the county got hit, the rain was extremely heavy for about 20 mins. It sounds to me like the water rose before these storms though...wierd.

 

[PSUFishMenace]

Modena water level

Hopefully you see this before saturday morning goes off the graph. Shows significant rise at Modena starting around 8 am Sat. Crested at 11:30 a.m. at about 4 ft.
still don't know what caused it but if it rose at Modena then the cause was somewhere upstream from there.

 

[fadeaway263]

Thanks Rookie. I want to check out the flood gates at Hibernia. Maybe they were opened.