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| Henry, Rosco and Cheryl |
The Blackstone Valley Paddle Club began it's season with a joint paddle with the Southern New England Paddlers on the North Branch of the Pawtuxet. We put in above the Hope Furnace Dam (15 Hope Furnace Road in Scituate) and paddled upstream to the Scituate Reservoir.
After a week of cold rainy weather, it
was great to get out on a relatively warm evening – it almost felt like
spring. There is no gage in this
section of the river, but the gage on the main branch of the Pawtuxet in Cranston
was 4.3 feet, 335 cfs. We had about 14 paddlers in a mixture of boats,
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| Spillway from the dam |
We paddled upstream into the backwater
of the Hope Furnace Dam. Eventually
the river narrows as you approach the Scituate Reservoir Dam. It got shallow in spots, but we all
made it up to the dam. With last
week’s rain, there was a lot of water coning to the dam’s spillway – it looked
like a waterfall. From there we
turned around and came back down.
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| Heading back |
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