South Fork Rivanna River near Charlottesville, 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.

Last 30 days

About this gauge

USGS gauge 02032515 sits on the South Fork Rivanna River and reads everything draining 259 square miles of the Rivanna basin. Its datum sits 328 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1979, 23 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

South Fork Rivanna River Reservoir near Charlottesville, VA sits immediately upstream, so dam releases rather than rainfall set the flow here. Two gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is South Fork Rivanna River Reservoir near Charlottesville, VA, reading 258 square miles. Downstream the next reading comes from Rivanna River at Palmyra, VA at 663 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 39% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The South Fork Rivanna River runs a median of 190 cfs at this gauge across 23 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 330 cfs, and September the leanest at 53 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 15,000 cfs in 1996, and the lowest is 1.5 cfs in 2021.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1979 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.