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Valley Creek

River in Alabama, read from 5 USGS gauges, draining about 148 square miles. Figures refresh every fifteen minutes.

Discharge

81.7

cfs · 22 min ago

Normal for today

101

cfs median, 54 yrs

Water temp

62

°F · 1464d ago

Gage height

3.05

ft

Below normal for the date81% of medianUSGS gauge 02462000
Thirty-day mean discharge · 59.0–306 cfsdashed line: today’s long-term median

Gauges on this water

Reading by reach

StationFlowTempUpdated
VALLEY CREEK NEAR OAK GROVE AL0246200081.7 cfs—22 min ago
VALLEY CREEK NEAR BESSEMER, AL0246150034.0 cfs—52 min ago
VALLEY CREEK BELOW BRIGHTON, ALA0246140516.4 cfs62°F22 min ago

Reading the number

On this date the gauge has averaged 101 cfs over 54 years of record, with the middle half of years falling between 83.0 and 132 cfs. Today is below that band: lower, clearer and, in summer, warmer water than a typical October day here.

Reports

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