Pound River below Flannagan Dam, near Haysi, VA 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 03209000 sits on the Pound River and reads everything draining 221 square miles of the Upper Levisa basin. Its datum sits 1,199 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1965, 60 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

John W Flannagan Reservoir near Haysi, VA sits immediately upstream, so dam releases rather than rainfall set the flow here. 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 Russell Fork at Bartlick, VA at 526 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 42% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Russell Fork at Cedarville, KY and Levisa Fork at Pikeville, KY.

Normal flows here

The Pound River runs a median of 176 cfs at this gauge across 60 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 325 cfs, and April the leanest at 56 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 4,440 cfs in 2017, and the lowest is 2.3 cfs in 1965.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1965 to 2025. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.