Withlacoochee River at Inglis Dam near Dunnellon, 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 02313230 sits on the Withlacoochee River and reads everything draining 2,020 square miles of the Withlacoochee basin. Its datum sits essentially at sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1970, 57 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Lake Rousseau near Dunnellon, Fla sits immediately upstream, so dam releases rather than rainfall set the flow here. Four gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Withlacoochee River at US 41 at Dunnellon, FL, reading 1,960 square miles. This gauge adds the 60 square miles that drain in between.

Normal flows here

The Withlacoochee River runs a median of 70 cfs at this gauge across 57 years of record. September is the fullest month at a median 295 cfs, and February the leanest at 70 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 6,030 cfs in 2005, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2018.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1970 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.