Little Cahaba River below Leeds, AL 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 02423397 sits on the Little Cahaba River and reads everything draining 17 square miles of the Cahaba basin. Its datum sits 596 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1995, 28 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 Little Cahaba River near Jefferson Park, AL at 24 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 70% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Little Cahaba River at Cah Bea Rd near Cahaba Hts AL, Cahaba River near Cahaba Heights AL and Cahaba River near Hoover, AL. It then enters Lake Purdy at Irondale Bridge near Leeds, AL, below which releases set the flow.

Normal flows here

The Little Cahaba River runs a median of 16 cfs at this gauge across 28 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 36 cfs, and October the leanest at 9.1 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 1,460 cfs in 2003, and the lowest is 1.9 cfs in 2017.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1995 to 2025. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Logan Martin Dam is 14 miles from this gauge. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• Logan Martin Dam 14 miles