Myakka River at Control near Laurel FL 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 02298880 sits on the Myakka River and reads everything draining 253 square miles of the Myakka basin. Its datum sits 2 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2008, 18 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Lower Myakka Lake near Sarasota FL sits immediately upstream, so dam releases rather than rainfall set the flow here. Five gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Lower Myakka Lake near Sarasota FL, reading 240 square miles. This gauge adds the 13 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Myakka River at North Port Charlotte FL at 358 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 71% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The Myakka River runs a median of 37 cfs at this gauge across 18 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 649 cfs, and April the leanest at 14 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 8,690 cfs in 2023, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2012.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2008 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.