Pithlachascotee River near Fivay Junction 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 02310280 sits on the Pithlachascotee River and reads everything draining 150 square miles of the Crystal-Pithlachascotee basin. Its datum sits essentially at sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1984, 42 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Crews Lake South near Loyce FL sits immediately upstream, so dam releases rather than rainfall set the flow here. One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Crews Lake South near Loyce FL, reading 138 square miles. This gauge adds the 12 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Pithlachascotee River near New Port Richey FL at 182 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 82% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The Pithlachascotee River runs a median of 1.6 cfs at this gauge across 42 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 8.3 cfs, and May the leanest at 0.0 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 242 cfs in 1988, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2017.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1984 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.