Saluda River near Ware Shoals, SC
Greenwood County, South Carolina · USGS 02163500
Latest observation
What this gauge represents: This gauge measures conditions on Saluda River at its USGS monitoring location in Greenwood County; conditions elsewhere on the waterway may differ.
Observed · 41 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 · Falling
Streamflow is currently 255 ft³/s, 44% below the historical median for this date. Flow has fallen 263 CFS over the past 24 hours.
USGS-reported historical daily median for 09-27: 454 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 | 199 CFS |
| Aug 29, 2026, 12:00 AM | 198 CFS |
| Aug 30, 2026, 12:00 AM | 193 CFS |
| Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 AM | 194 CFS |
| Sep 1, 2026, 12:00 AM | 208 CFS |
| Sep 2, 2026, 12:00 AM | 199 CFS |
| Sep 3, 2026, 12:00 AM | 180 CFS |
| Sep 4, 2026, 12:00 AM | 174 CFS |
| Sep 5, 2026, 12:00 AM | 164 CFS |
| Sep 6, 2026, 12:00 AM | 170 CFS |
| Sep 7, 2026, 12:00 AM | 178 CFS |
| Sep 8, 2026, 12:00 AM | 194 CFS |
| Sep 9, 2026, 12:00 AM | 208 CFS |
| Sep 10, 2026, 12:00 AM | 202 CFS |
| Sep 11, 2026, 12:00 AM | 198 CFS |
| Sep 12, 2026, 12:00 AM | 200 CFS |
| Sep 13, 2026, 12:00 AM | 241 CFS |
| Sep 14, 2026, 12:00 AM | 268 CFS |
| Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 AM | 219 CFS |
| Sep 16, 2026, 12:00 AM | 212 CFS |
| Sep 17, 2026, 12:00 AM | 208 CFS |
| Sep 18, 2026, 12:00 AM | 203 CFS |
| Sep 19, 2026, 12:00 AM | 216 CFS |
| Sep 20, 2026, 12:00 AM | 212 CFS |
| Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM | 193 CFS |
| Sep 23, 2026, 12:00 AM | 150 CFS |
| Sep 24, 2026, 12:00 AM | 233 CFS |
| Sep 25, 2026, 12:00 AM | 346 CFS |
| Sep 26, 2026, 12:00 AM | 466 CFS |
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