Cumberland River below Cheatham Dam, 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 03435000 sits on the Cumberland River and reads everything draining 14,163 square miles of the Lower Cumberland basin. Its datum sits essentially at sea level NAVD88. Daily flow is on record here from 1955 to 1991, 37 years in all.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Cheatham Reservoir near Ashland City, TN sits immediately upstream, so dam releases rather than rainfall set the flow here. Six gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Cheatham Reservoir near Ashland City, TN, reading 14,159 square miles.

Normal flows here

The Cumberland River runs a median of 16,300 cfs at this gauge across 37 years of record. April is the fullest month at a median 33,250 cfs, and October the leanest at 7,840 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 202,000 cfs in 1975, and the lowest is 700 cfs in 1970.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1955 to 1991. 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.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Cheatham Dam sits 1 mile from this gauge and its releases set what this gauge reads. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Cheatham Dam 1 mile