Little Tallapoosa River near Newell 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 02413300 sits on the Little Tallapoosa River and reads everything draining 406 square miles of the Upper Tallapoosa basin. Its datum sits 843 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1976, 50 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Three gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Little Tallapoosa River at GA 100, near Bowdon, GA, reading 245 square miles. This gauge adds the 161 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Tallapoosa River at Harris Dam(pool) near Cragford at 1,454 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 28% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The Little Tallapoosa River runs a median of 335 cfs at this gauge across 50 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 743 cfs, and September the leanest at 116 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 12,600 cfs in 1976, and the lowest is 3.3 cfs in 2011.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1976 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Harris Dam is 18 miles from this gauge. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• Harris Dam 18 miles