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Sugar Creek

River in Illinois, read from 6 USGS gauges, draining about 446 square miles. Figures refresh every fifteen minutes.

Discharge

23.8

cfs · 36 min ago

Normal for today

16.0

cfs median, 78 yrs

Water temp

78

°F · 67d ago

Gage height

2.88

ft

Normal for the date149% of medianUSGS gauge 05525500
Thirty-day mean discharge · 19.8–45.4 cfsdashed line: today’s long-term median

Gauges on this water

Reading by reach

StationFlowTempUpdated
SUGAR CREEK AT MILFORD, IL0552550023.8 cfs—36 min ago
SUGAR CREEK NEAR SPRINGFIELD, IL055762509.6 cfs78°F1h ago
SUGAR CREEK NEAR CHATHAM, IL055761959.1 cfs66°F2887d ago

Reading the number

On this date the gauge has averaged 16.0 cfs over 78 years of record, with the middle half of years falling between 10.0 and 56.0 cfs. Today sits inside that band, which is as close to a normal October day as the gauge can tell you.

Reports

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