Figures 1, 2 and 3 below represents the small flood event, frequency and duration of occurrence. The smaller flood events seem to occur few years and the frequency of occurrence is also low. The smaller flood event is significantly dropped or there are no small flood events in most of the years. Also, the duration of the small flood is also less. Some of the smaller flood events exits for more than 30 days in a year. This means this reach does not receive high enough flow for small flood events.
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Figures 4, 5 and 6 represent the high flow pulses magnitude, frequency and duration of occurrence respectively. The high flow pulses are below 1200 cfs .The magnitude of high flow pulses is about 900 cfs only. Figure 5 shows that there is fluctuation in frequency of occurrence of those events. The median frequency is only 5 which means 5 times occurrence of high flow pulses. The median of high flow pulses is about 4 days only in a year. The graph also shows that duration for high flow in 2013 was highest which existed for around 30 days. The magnitude, frequency and duration represented by the historical data shows there wasn't enough flow to support the riparian habitats.
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