Rocky Creek at Great Falls, 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 02147500 sits on Rocky Creek and reads everything draining 194 square miles of the Lower Catawba basin. Its datum sits 294 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1951, 71 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Rocky Creek at SC 901 above Great Falls, SC, reading 103 square miles. This gauge adds the 91 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Lake Wateree Tailrace above Camden, SC at 4,740 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 4% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Wateree River near Camden, SC.

Normal flows here

Rocky Creek runs a median of 44 cfs at this gauge across 71 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 151 cfs, and September the leanest at 20 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 21,100 cfs in 1967, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2002.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1951 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.