Santee River near Pineville, 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 02171500 sits on the Santee River and reads everything draining 14,700 square miles of the Santee basin. Its datum sits 22 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1942, 84 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Lake Marion near Elloree, SC sits immediately upstream, so dam releases rather than rainfall set the flow here. Two gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Lake Marion near Elloree, SC, reading 14,300 square miles. This gauge adds the 400 square miles that drain in between.

Normal flows here

The Santee River runs a median of 570 cfs at this gauge across 84 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 672 cfs, and July the leanest at 558 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 153,000 cfs in 1945, and the lowest is 9.0 cfs in 1947.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1942 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.