Little Cahaba River near Jefferson Park, 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 02423400 sits on the Little Cahaba River and reads everything draining 24 square miles of the Cahaba basin. Its datum sits 557 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1986, 33 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Little Cahaba River below Leeds, AL, reading 17 square miles. This gauge adds the 7.4 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Lake Purdy at Irondale Bridge near Leeds, AL at 30 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 83% 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.

Normal flows here

The Little Cahaba River runs a median of 21 cfs at this gauge across 33 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 51 cfs, and October the leanest at 11 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 2,190 cfs in 2009, and the lowest is 2.8 cfs in 2009.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1986 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Logan Martin Dam is 16 miles from this gauge. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• Logan Martin Dam 16 miles