How to refresh individual query cache in ColdFusion 2016

I found a piece of code that works under the ColdFusion 10 engine, but not under the ColdFusion 2016 (CF12) engine.

I have a CFC that houses cached queries that are grabbed by function calls. Say I have a query I want to cache, but I make a change to the db table that this query uses. I do not see the data in the returned cached query, so I need to refresh the query cache, simple enough. This is how I have my code set up:

<cffunction name="getVariables" access="public" returntype="query">
    <cfargument name="time_span" required="true" default="#this.cacheSpan#" />
    <cfset var qryGetVariables="">

    <!--- IF REFRESH, NEW QRYTIMESPAN --->
    <cfif arguments.time_span eq 0 AND NOT this.bln_refresh>
        <!--- IF time_span 0 but not refresh, reset to original cache span --->
        <cfset arguments.time_span = this.cacheSpan />
    </cfif>
    <cfquery name="qryGetVariables" datasource="#this.dsn#" cachedwithin="#arguments.time_span#">
        select *
          from get_variables
         order by id, value
    </cfquery>
    <cfreturn qryGetVariables>
</cffunction>

I call a function in the same CFC that refreshes this query in the following manner:

this.bln_refresh = true;
<cfinvoke method="getVariables" returnvariable="qryReturn">
   <cfinvokeargument name="time_span" value="0" />
</cfinvoke>
this.bln_refresh = false;

Again, this worked before on ColdFusion 10 but now it does not work on ColdFusion 2016. What do I need to do differently to refresh the cache of this specific query?

Much thanks to @Alex, I came across the following solution that appears to be working on our servers:

<cffunction name="getVariables" access="public" returntype="query">
    <cfargument name="time_span" required="true" default="#this.cacheSpan#" />
    <cfset var qryGetVariables="" />
    <cfset var flt_qryTimeSpan=0>

    <cfif NOT cacheIdExists("qryGetVariablesCache") OR this.bln_refresh>
        <cfquery name="qryGetVariables" datasource="#this.dsn#" cachedwithin="#flt_qryTimeSpan#">
            select *
              from get_variables
             order by id, value
        </cfquery>
        <cfset cacheRemove("qryGetVariablesCache") />
        <cfset cachePut("qryGetVariablesCache",qryGetVariables,this.cacheSpan) />
    <cfelse>
        <cfset qryGetVariables = cacheGet("qryGetVariablesCache") />
    </cfif>
    <cfreturn qryGetVariables>

</cffunction>