Chickahominy River at Chamberlayne Rd near Atlee, VA 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 02042287 sits on the Chickahominy River and reads everything draining 62 square miles of the Lower James basin. Its datum sits 93 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow is on record here from 1990 to 1998, 8 years in all.

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 Chickahominy River near Providence Forge, VA at 251 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 25% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The Chickahominy River runs a median of 20 cfs at this gauge across 8 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 75 cfs, and September the leanest at 0.7 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 2,960 cfs in 1993, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 1993.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1990 to 1998. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median. USGS stopped publishing a daily flow record at this gauge, so these are historical norms, not a baseline for current readings.