Goat Rock Dam Releases & Water Levels

Forecast river flow (NOAA)

Forecast from the NWS National Water Prediction Service; conditions on the water always outrank a forecast.

How to read this dam

Goat Rock Dam is a US Army Corps of Engineers project. The Corps publishes observed data for it, not an operating timetable: the release above is what the dam was actually passing at the stamped time, straight from the Corps' own gauge feed. There is no published schedule to plan a day around, so treat the tailwater as able to change at any moment.

The flow context line compares the current release with this dam's own last 30 days, so "low" means low for this water, not low in general. A tailwater that is wadeable at a low release can stop being wadeable in minutes once the dam opens up. Water rising on your boots, debris starting to move or a line of foam coming down are your signals to get out first and check the numbers after.