Pocotaligo River at Sumter, SC 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 02135517 sits on the Pocotaligo River and reads everything draining 134 square miles of the Black basin. Its datum sits 109 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow is on record here from 1993 to 1995, 3 years in all.

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 Black River at Kingstree, SC at 1,252 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 11% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The Pocotaligo River runs a median of 107 cfs at this gauge across 3 years of record. January is the fullest month at a median 349 cfs, and May the leanest at 32 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 4,550 cfs in 1995, and the lowest is 6.2 cfs in 1994.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1993 to 1995. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median. USGS stopped publishing a daily flow record at this gauge, so these are historical norms, not a baseline for current readings.