Water Flow at Oallen

[Rowdy]

Jeffu, you mentioned that the water flow at Oallen has completely changed. Obviously the water used to go under the old wooden bridge but now does it tend to go more to the centre of the river bed instead of over towards the north bank.
Now that the wooden bridge is gone the great big riffle across the flow is gone and I wonder if all the gold now gets washed further downstream and less gold may be what we can expect from now on. Hopefully it is just in another area of the river flat and will just need a bit of trial and error to locate.
Rowdy

[jeffu]

Hi Rowdy.

Running at normal level the river hasn't changed. The flood that went through a bit over a week ago has left a lot of sand bars where there none before,just gravel and cobbles. I think the rock wall that supports the southern approach to the new bridge is diverting the water flow when in flood. Before you would get the occasional small sand bar that ran close to parallel to the river, now there are dozens of sand bars, some quite large, that run back towards the river, somewhere around a 15-20 degree angle to river.
I think you maybe right when you say that now the big concrete riffle is gone, the gold is travelling further down. It will take a few trips to re-discover the new gutters.
I'll find it again, sooner or later

Jeff

[LordJR]

I was out there this past weekend and was finding gold next to a small sandbar down stream from the bridge right as it starts to turn south.