Tallapoosa River at Wadley AL 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 02414500 sits on the Tallapoosa River and reads everything draining 1,675 square miles of the Middle Tallapoosa basin. Its datum sits 600 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1984, 43 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Tallapoosa River at Harris Dam(pool) near Cragford sits immediately upstream, so dam releases rather than rainfall set the flow here. Two gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Tallapoosa River at Malone, Alabama, reading 1,620 square miles. This gauge adds the 55 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Tallapoosa River near New Site, Al.(horseshoe Bend) at 2,058 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 81% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The Tallapoosa River runs a median of 1,440 cfs at this gauge across 43 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 3,380 cfs, and September the leanest at 524 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 103,000 cfs in 2003, and the lowest is 41 cfs in 1987.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1984 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Harris Dam sits 10 miles from this gauge and its releases set what this gauge reads. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• Harris Dam 10 miles