Palatlakaha River at Cherry Lake Out near Groveland, 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.

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About this gauge

USGS gauge 02236900 sits on the Palatlakaha River and reads everything draining 165 square miles of the Oklawaha basin. Daily flow has been on record here since 1957, 69 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Cherry Lake near Groveland, Fla sits immediately upstream, so dam releases rather than rainfall set the flow here. One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Lake Minnehaha at Clermont, FL, reading 131 square miles. This gauge adds the 34 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Palatlakaha River near Mascotte, FL at 182 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 91% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Palatlakaha River at Structure M-6 near Mascotte, FL, Palatlakaha River below Structure M-5 near Okahumpka, FL and Palatlakaha River at Structure M-4 near Okahumpka, FL.

Normal flows here

The Palatlakaha River runs a median of 2.4 cfs at this gauge across 69 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 3.6 cfs, and June the leanest at 1.4 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 619 cfs in 2003, and the lowest is -39.0 cfs in 2003.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1957 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.