Rick Watkins Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 I see a lot of moisture went through nevada,anyone know if winnemucca area got any of these gullywashers up in that area. Hoping it may have stirred the ground a little up there also. Dont want to see any personal damage to the area but the ground needed a good cleansing in my opinion,springs a comin. Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reno Chris Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 I've been watching the news and have not heard of anything that far east. There has been some flooding on the Carson River and locally around Reno, but the water has not been quite as high in this part of the country as it was in early January. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Watkins Posted February 12, 2017 Author Share Posted February 12, 2017 Thanks chris ,theres still hope winters not over yet. Hope to see you and steve this spring maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reno Chris Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 I'm planning to take my trailer up to Imlay for April and May and explore all over up there. The one flooding I did hear of to the east was in Elko Co. where just the accumulation of water from all the storms in the last weeks caused a small reservoir to fail, and the dam was destroyed. However, just because there is no big river flooding up there does not mean some of the rain water flowing through gullys did not stir up some gold. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 Did Rye Patch Reservoir fill? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozgold Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 On 2/11/2017 at 6:57 PM, Rick Watkins said: I see a lot of moisture went through nevada,anyone know if winnemucca area got any of these gullywashers up in that area. Hoping it may have stirred the ground a little up there also Hi Rick I've been watching on the news here in Oz about the Oroville dam spillway problem (hope they get it fixed in time). It might be worth a trip to California after it all settles down again because there having a big gully washer over there at the moment ! Cheers ozgold 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reno Chris Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 Right now, its hard to get around in Northern California because of all the road closures and blockage for emergency road repairs. Did a little prospecting in Calif. today, and got my first detected nugget of 2017. Rivers are high water and water is flowing down every little drainage. I saw a lot of little slides and places where erosion has done damage to the roadways. There actually is some minor flooding in Nevada along the Humboldt river through Winnemucca from rain in Elko Co., but it wont affect prospecting much or expose any gold. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Watkins Posted February 15, 2017 Author Share Posted February 15, 2017 Good to see a real amount of water in the humboldt river drainage, man that area has needed it for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reno Chris Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 On 2/11/2017 at 10:11 PM, mn90403 said: Did Rye Patch Reservoir fill? I've not been out that way, but with all the water flowing in the Humboldt, I am sure that by the end of spring it will be full. That will be good for the farmers in the Lovelock area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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