Eighteenmile Creek below Pendleton, 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 02186702 sits on Eighteenmile Creek and reads everything draining 49 square miles of the Seneca basin. Its datum sits 676 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2013, 13 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 Hartwell Lake near Hartwell, GA at 2,088 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 2% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Eighteenmile Creek runs a median of 49 cfs at this gauge across 13 years of record. January is the fullest month at a median 77 cfs, and September the leanest at 28 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 2,170 cfs in 2024, and the lowest is 8.8 cfs in 2024.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2013 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Eighteenmile Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 12 feet. NWS starts watching it at 11 feet. The highest crest on record is 15 feet, in July 2013.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge EMCS1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.