Mechums River near White Hall, VA 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 02031000 sits on the Mechums River and reads everything draining 95 square miles of the Rivanna basin. Its datum sits 429 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1943, 55 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 South Fork Rivanna River Reservoir near Charlottesville, VA at 258 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 37% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to South Fork Rivanna River near Charlottesville, VA and Rivanna River at Palmyra, VA.

Normal flows here

The Mechums River runs a median of 72 cfs at this gauge across 55 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 112 cfs, and September the leanest at 23 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 10,600 cfs in 1943, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2002.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1943 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.