Jumper Creek Canal near Wahoo, 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 02312645 sits on Jumper Creek Canal and reads everything draining 51 square miles of the Withlacoochee basin. Its datum sits essentially at sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1979, 31 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Jumper Creek Canal near Bushnell, FL, reading 40 square miles. This gauge adds the 11 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Withlacoochee River at Wysong Dam, at Carlson, FL at 1,520 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 3% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Withlacoochee River near Inverness, FL, Withlacoochee River at SR 200 near Holder, FL and Withlacoochee River at US 41 at Dunnellon, FL.

Normal flows here

Jumper Creek Canal runs a median of 24 cfs at this gauge across 31 years of record. August is the fullest month at a median 30 cfs, and May the leanest at 15 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 276 cfs in 2025, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2012.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1979 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.