Alligator Creek below Belcher Rd at Clearwater FL Water Level Today

NWS river forecast

Forecast from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service. Issued a few times a day and only while a forecast is active. Not for navigation.

Last 30 days

About this gauge

USGS gauge 02307668 sits on Alligator Creek and reads everything draining 3.7 square miles of the Tampa Bay basin. Its datum sits 25 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1996, 24 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

No gauged site sits above this one on the mainstem, so this is the first published reading on the river. Downstream the next reading comes from Alligator Creek at Kapok Park at Clearwater FL at 7.0 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 52% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Alligator Creek runs a median of 1.7 cfs at this gauge across 24 years of record. August is the fullest month at a median 6.6 cfs, and May the leanest at 0.8 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 392 cfs in 2025, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2009.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1996 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.