{"id":2900,"date":"2025-03-28T16:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2025-03-28T16:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:13:13","slug":"spring-drought-affects-peace-river-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=2900","title":{"rendered":"Spring Drought Affects Peace River Flow"},"content":{"rendered":"It has not rained much this month so far and the effects are really obvious in the Peace River.<br \/>The main effect is that no one should plan a paddling trip anytime soon.<br \/>According to preliminary data from the USGS, flow at the Bartow gauge was about 20 percent of longtime average.<br \/>Downstream at Arcadia, flow is less than 10 percent of the long-term average flow.<br \/>In eastern Polk County, the flow in Livingston Creek in Lake Wales Ridge State Forest is about half of the long-term average.<br \/>Arbuckle Creek in Highlands County is flowing at about 15 percent of average for this time of year. <br \/>Typically flow recovers with the onset of the summer rainy season.<br \/>If any hurricanes affect the area this year, river flows could swell.<br \/><br \/>   <br \/>  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has not rained much this month so far and the effects are really obvious in the Peace River.The main effect is that no one should plan a paddling trip anytime soon.According to preliminary data from the USGS, flow at the Bartow gauge was about 20 percent of longtime average.Downstream at Arcadia, flow is less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gci"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2901,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions\/2901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}