Beaver Creek at Solway, TN Flow & Water Level

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 03535400 sits on Beaver Creek and reads everything draining 87 square miles of the Lower Clinch basin. Its datum sits 845 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1999, 25 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Beaver C near Powell Tenn, reading 56 square miles. This gauge adds the 31 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Melton Hill Lake at 3,343 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 3% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Beaver Creek runs a median of 72 cfs at this gauge across 25 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 170 cfs, and September the leanest at 40 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 5,980 cfs in 2019, and the lowest is 17 cfs in 2001.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1999 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Melton Hill Dam is 9 miles from this gauge on the Clinch system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Melton Hill Dam 9 miles
• Fort Loudoun Dam 12 miles
• Tellico Dam 14 miles
• Norris Dam 18 miles