Dutchmans Creek near Winnsboro, SC 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 02147659 sits on Dutchmans Creek and reads everything draining 15 square miles of the Wateree basin. Its datum sits essentially at sea level NAVD88. Daily flow is on record here from 2019 to 2022, 2 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 Lake Wateree Tailrace above Camden, SC at 4,740 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 0% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Wateree River near Camden, SC.

Normal flows here

Dutchmans Creek runs a median of 1.6 cfs at this gauge across 2 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 31 cfs, and October the leanest at 0.2 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 327 cfs in 2020, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2019.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2019 to 2022. 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.

Flood stages and record crests

The highest crest on record is 6.1 feet, in June 2023.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge DCRS1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.