Jumper Creek Canal near Bushnell, 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.

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About this gauge

USGS gauge 02312640 sits on Jumper Creek Canal and reads everything draining 40 square miles of the Withlacoochee basin. Its datum sits essentially at sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1964, 63 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 Jumper Creek Canal near Wahoo, FL at 51 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 79% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Withlacoochee River at Wysong Dam, at Carlson, FL, Withlacoochee River near Inverness, FL and Withlacoochee River at SR 200 near Holder, FL.

Normal flows here

Jumper Creek Canal runs a median of 17 cfs at this gauge across 63 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 22 cfs, and May the leanest at 12 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 235 cfs in 1998, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2001.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1964 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.