Medway Sunday

[Mike Taylor]

Hey gang,

It's supposed to be a nice day on Sunday and there's water....

BW, Sam and I are planning for a run (with some playing) down the Medway.  No time set yet.

Let me know if you're interested in joining us - or if you'll be on the river anyway.

 

I'll have that Select W-1 paddle with me if someone wants to demo it for a while.

 

SYOTW

Mike in Lunenburg

[Michael Neville]

Hey Paddlers,

Looks like some flows are coming for Friday if you can get away.

Has anyone paddle the St Croix river below the dam? Is there enough elevation there? class 2? 3? 4?

Mike

[Terry Deveau]

The following extracted from a Panuke Lake canoe trip narrative, dated 2007-08-20 ... 

 

My son Paul and I went on, and I wanted to try the actual St. Croix River.

The overflow of the Side Dam spills to the northeast into what becomes the
St. Croix River, but the reservoir continues north without
obstruction, on to a Final Dam, where the flow enters a penstock and the
canoe trip must end.

 

Instead of doing that, Paul and I portaged out
on the right at the Side Dam. At first, the stream in the ravine is not
navigable, but then a stillwater begins, and we put in there.
However, to our dismay, we found that stillwater to be quite short,
followed by another long unnavigable section, so we aborted the river
at that point, and portaged back to the reservoir. The route shown on
the map is our actual route, and the dashed line labelled "Better
Route" is what we should have done to stay in the reservoir.

So what we actually did was this:

Portage 4 (at Side Dam), 1 hr., 0.4 km (most of the time spent scouting)
stillwater, 11 min., 0.2 km
Portage 5 (back up to reservoir), 45 min., 0.3 km
Last leg of reservoir, 16 min., 0.5 km

One thing that was really interesting was at the head of the
stillwater, the end of portage 4, there was some evidence that there
had once been an old dam at that location (now breached), and at the
other end of that stillwater, the start of portage 5, there is still
an old dam (holding back the stillwater) and evidence of old
sluiceways, etc. It seems like there must have been mills at these
locations in the past.

The whole trip was really a lot of fun. I had a great time.

Terry

 

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