French Creek near Wattsburg, PA
Erie County, Pennsylvania · USGS 03021350
Latest observation
What this gauge represents: This gauge measures conditions on French Creek at its USGS monitoring location in Erie County; conditions elsewhere on the waterway may differ.
Observed · 32 minutes ago
Observed
How to read these numbers
How much water moves past the gauge each second. Higher numbers mean more water is moving downstream.
The water-surface height at this gauge. It is useful for tracking rises, falls and flood thresholds, but it is not the river's total depth.
How much the latest reading has risen or fallen compared with roughly 24 hours earlier.
The typical streamflow for this date based on USGS historical statistics. A multiple such as 3× means current flow is about three times the historical median.
Get Water Data's plain-language summary of current flow, historical context and recent direction.
Official action and flood thresholds where available. These levels are specific to each gauge location.
Gauge height and flood stage are station-specific. A 12-foot reading at one gauge should not be directly compared with 12 feet at another.
Below historical median · Steady
Streamflow is currently 29 ft³/s, 27% below the historical median for this date. Flow has been relatively steady over the past 24 hours.
USGS-reported historical daily median for 09-27: 39 ft³/s · Based on USGS day-of-year statistics
How trends & context are calculated →Streamflow trend
Daily mean streamflow · Aug 28–Sep 26 · dates shown in UTC · 29 observations
Data gap: 1 calendar day is missing in this coverage. The line stops across missing observations.
Look at the data (29 rows)
| Date (UTC) | Daily mean |
|---|---|
| Aug 28, 2026, 12:00 AM | 59.1 CFS |
| Aug 29, 2026, 12:00 AM | 43.3 CFS |
| Aug 30, 2026, 12:00 AM | 34.2 CFS |
| Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 AM | 60.2 CFS |
| Sep 1, 2026, 12:00 AM | 78.3 CFS |
| Sep 2, 2026, 12:00 AM | 292 CFS |
| Sep 3, 2026, 12:00 AM | 1,200 CFS |
| Sep 4, 2026, 12:00 AM | 499 CFS |
| Sep 5, 2026, 12:00 AM | 203 CFS |
| Sep 6, 2026, 12:00 AM | 117 CFS |
| Sep 7, 2026, 12:00 AM | 80.5 CFS |
| Sep 8, 2026, 12:00 AM | 58 CFS |
| Sep 9, 2026, 12:00 AM | 114 CFS |
| Sep 10, 2026, 12:00 AM | 563 CFS |
| Sep 11, 2026, 12:00 AM | 170 CFS |
| Sep 12, 2026, 12:00 AM | 97 CFS |
| Sep 13, 2026, 12:00 AM | 74.4 CFS |
| Sep 14, 2026, 12:00 AM | 60.7 CFS |
| Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 AM | 48.2 CFS |
| Sep 17, 2026, 12:00 AM | 162 CFS |
| Sep 18, 2026, 12:00 AM | 98.7 CFS |
| Sep 19, 2026, 12:00 AM | 76.4 CFS |
| Sep 20, 2026, 12:00 AM | 68.9 CFS |
| Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM | 59.3 CFS |
| Sep 22, 2026, 12:00 AM | 49.1 CFS |
| Sep 23, 2026, 12:00 AM | 42.4 CFS |
| Sep 24, 2026, 12:00 AM | 35.8 CFS |
| Sep 25, 2026, 12:00 AM | 32.3 CFS |
| Sep 26, 2026, 12:00 AM | 29.9 CFS |
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