Ocoee River at Copperhill, TN Flow & Water Level

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 03559500 sits on the Ocoee River and reads everything draining 352 square miles of the Ocoee basin. Its datum sits 1,445 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2017, 9 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Blue Ridge Lake near Blue Ridge, GA, reading 232 square miles. This gauge adds the 120 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Lake Ocoee at 595 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 59% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The Ocoee River runs a median of 801 cfs at this gauge across 9 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 1,090 cfs, and October the leanest at 668 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 5,430 cfs in 2020, and the lowest is 213 cfs in 2017.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2017 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Ocoee No. 3 Dam is 6 miles from this gauge on the Ocoee system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Ocoee No. 3 Dam 6 miles
• Blue Ridge Dam 9 miles
• Ocoee No. 2 Dam 11 miles
• Apalachia Dam 13 miles