Gauge Information

Gauge Description:

A spray painted staff gage (thanks Rob!) is located at the take-out on Hwy 129 at the Yellow Creek & Cheoah confluence. It is upstream on river left of the culvert -- best seen from upstream river right. 0" is the base of the culvert. It was running 5" when painted, so the gage actually starts at 6" and caps out at 5ft. The marks are in 2" increments.

At this time our best guess for reading the gage is as follows:
1 foot: bare minimum
1.2 : nice low
1.4 : med
1.6 and up: high

Please help dial this gage in: report your runs!

Gauge Information

Name Range Difficulty Updated Level
CHEOAH RIVER NR BEARPEN GAP NR TAPOCO, NC
usgs-0351706800 300 - 600 cfs IV-V 04h27m 1010 cfs (rc= 2.4 )

RangeWater LevelDifficultyComment
300 - 600 cfs barely runnable-high runnable IV-V Reference gauge - USE WITH CAUTION. See write-up for more info.

Report - Reports of Yellow Creek SR 1242 to Cheoah/ US 129 and related gauges

Reports give the public a chance to report on river conditions throughout the country as well as log the history of a river.

Reports

When River/Gauge Subject Level Reporter
Yellow CreekSR 1242 to Cheoah/ US 129 [NC] yellow creek on 17 may 2009 1ft Tim Boring
Yellow Creek [NC] One of the drops below the falls Medium Kevin Colburn
2y133d14h41m Yellow Creek [NC] Yellow Creek Falls 1.2 Kirk Eddlemon
5y106d14h41m Yellow Creek [NC] (RM) Yellow Creek Gage 5 Robert Maxwell
6y221d14h41m Yellow Creek [NC] Chris runs the 20 footer Medium Kevin Colburn
7y221d14h41m Yellow Creek [NC] Charlie Runs the 20 Footer Low Kevin Colburn