West Branch Montreal Report Your Runs

This survey is designed for collecting data for Spring 2006 runs on the West Branch Montreal. If you have not run the river in 2006 but wish to report information from your past experiences please click here.

American Whitewater and the Wisconsin Hoofers Outing Club, with assistance from the Rivers & Trails Program of the National Park Service, are working to identify the range of preferred whitewater boating flows on West Branch Montreal River. Xcel Energy manages Gile Flowage which provides water to their Saxon Falls Hydroelectric Project and Montreal Hydroelectric Project downstream. Gile Flowage is a storage impoundment and not a licensed project, but paddlers are interested in obtaining more accurate information on preferred flows with the goal of determining the potential for a scheduled flow release.

We have developed this survey so individuals can report their runs in Spring 2006. Our goal is to utilize information from the survey to help us identify a flow preference curve for whitewater boating, which will identify minimum, acceptable, and optimum flows.

Please pass along the word about this survey to fellow boaters. If you have friends who run the West Branch Montreal this spring, please refer them to this webpage. The more responses we get the more useful our results will be. We will publish results of this survey for the benefit of paddlers with an interest in recreational opportunities on this river.