Apalachicola River below Woodruff Dam, near Sneads, 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 02357700 sits on the Apalachicola River and reads everything draining 17,100 square miles of the Apalachicola basin.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Lake Seminole near Chattahoochee, FL sits immediately upstream, so dam releases rather than rainfall set the flow here. One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Chattahoochee River near Columbia, AL, reading 8,210 square miles. This gauge adds the 8,890 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Apalachicola River at Chattahoochee Fla at 17,200 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 99% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Apalachicola River near Blountstown,florida.

Flood stages and record crests

The Apalachicola River reaches flood stage at this gauge at 63 feet. NWS starts watching it at 56 feet. The highest crest on record is 76.3 feet, in July 1994.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge WDRF1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Jim Woodruff Dam sits 1 mile from this gauge and its releases set what this gauge reads. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• Jim Woodruff Dam 1 mile