Moormans River near Free Union, 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.

Last 30 days

About this gauge

USGS gauge 02032250 sits on the Moormans River and reads everything draining 77 square miles of the Rivanna basin. Its datum sits 403 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1980, 38 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 30% 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 Moormans River runs a median of 54 cfs at this gauge across 38 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 102 cfs, and September the leanest at 9.1 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 9,620 cfs in 1986, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2010.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1980 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.