Pond Creek near Louisville, KY 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 03302000 sits on Pond Creek and reads everything draining 64 square miles of the Salt basin. Its datum sits 430 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1944, 82 years of it.

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 Pond Creek at Pendleton Road near Louisville, KY at 80 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 80% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Pond Creek runs a median of 27 cfs at this gauge across 82 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 71 cfs, and September the leanest at 11 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 7,200 cfs in 1997, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2006.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1944 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

The highest crest on record is 25.7 feet, in March 1997.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge FDLK2. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.