Every once in a while when searching the net for resources, I stumble on something good. The following illustration was discovered on a San Bernardino County Flood Control online document site. It is to a graph that plots the history of flooding on the Mojave River since 1862 to the present. Enjoy! 
Hope this document might shed some light on just how "stochastic" the Mojave River's flow can be! To add some balance, here is a link to the USGS, Lower Narrows stream gauge. The data at this site is updated every six hours(?), and can be mined as back to when the gauge was established (for detailed information regarding the period(s) of record). The great flood of 1938 destroyed the guage at the Upper Narrows of the Mojave River (its location can be seen on the 1929 aerial photo at this link, notice the faint penciled in arrow and label written on the orginal photo). Hope these data links offers a little insight into what conditions the MTC had to deal with before and/or besides the introduction of exotic species.
Hope this document might shed some light on just how "stochastic" the Mojave River's flow can be! To add some balance, here is a link to the USGS, Lower Narrows stream gauge. The data at this site is updated every six hours(?), and can be mined as back to when the gauge was established (for detailed information regarding the period(s) of record). The great flood of 1938 destroyed the guage at the Upper Narrows of the Mojave River (its location can be seen on the 1929 aerial photo at this link, notice the faint penciled in arrow and label written on the orginal photo). Hope these data links offers a little insight into what conditions the MTC had to deal with before and/or besides the introduction of exotic species.
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