Shady Brook near Sumterville, FL 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 02312667 sits on Shady Brook and reads everything draining 8.0 square miles of the Withlacoochee basin. Its datum sits 5 feet below sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1982, 43 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 Outlet River at Panacoochee Retreats, FL at 420 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 2% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Withlacoochee River at Wysong Dam, at Carlson, FL, Withlacoochee River near Inverness, FL and Withlacoochee River at SR 200 near Holder, FL.

Normal flows here

Shady Brook runs a median of 28 cfs at this gauge across 43 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 46 cfs, and May the leanest at 15 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 243 cfs in 1982, and the lowest is 0.4 cfs in 1992.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1982 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.