Big Creek near Clermont, 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 02236500 sits on Big Creek and reads everything draining 68 square miles of the Oklawaha basin. Its datum sits 99 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1958, 67 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 Lake Minnehaha at Clermont, FL at 131 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 52% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Palatlakaha River at Cherry Lake Out near Groveland, FL, Palatlakaha River near Mascotte, FL and Palatlakaha River at Structure M-6 near Mascotte, FL.

Normal flows here

Big Creek runs a median of 8.7 cfs at this gauge across 67 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 18 cfs, and May the leanest at 0.3 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 684 cfs in 1960, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2008.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1958 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.