South Fork Little Manatee River near Wimauma 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.

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About this gauge

USGS gauge 02300300 sits on the South Fork Little Manatee River and reads everything draining 38 square miles of the Little Manatee basin. Its datum sits 13 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1988, 26 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is South Fork Little Manatee River near Parrish FL, reading 21 square miles. This gauge adds the 17 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Little Manatee River at US 301 near Wimauma, FL at 149 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 26% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The South Fork Little Manatee River runs a median of 17 cfs at this gauge across 26 years of record. August is the fullest month at a median 81 cfs, and May the leanest at 7.5 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 4,200 cfs in 1988, and the lowest is 0.5 cfs in 2012.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1988 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.