Suggested Minimum Levels

Suggested Minimum Levels

(This information has been provided by Phil Young)
Yeah, I know, "I've run it lower". These are fun minimums.
Gauge Minimum Gauge Minimum
Big South Fork
at Stearns
1000 cfs
3000 cfs North White Oak Creek
Chattooga
near Clayton
Note: Computer gauge reads
0.2 higher than bridge gauge.
Sec. III 1.8 bridge
Sec. IV 1.4 bridge
Emory at
Oakdale
500 cfs Nemo to Camp Austin
1000 cfs Obed Junction to Nemo
1300 cfs Jett to Nemo (1.5 Jett bridge)
1800 cfs Daddys Creek Canyon
(1.3 bridge)
2500 cfs Clarkrange to Barnett
3000 cfs Emory River Canyon
Emory at
Oakdale

(continued)

3000 cfs White Creek
3500 cfs Obed, Goulds Bend
4000 cfs Crooked Fork
(3.8 upper/3.6 lower)
7000 cfs Crab Orchard Creek
(1.0 bridge)
10,000 cfs Island Creek (5" bridge)
Little at
Townsend
300 cfs Elbow to the Y
500 cfs/2.6 ft The Sinks
700 cfs Lower Abrams Creek
800 cfs/3.0 ft Elkmont
Little Pigeon
at Sevierville
Note: Based on TVA gauge not USGS
1200 cfs West Prong
1500 cfs Big Creek
2000 cfs Middle Prong (1.8 bridge)
French Broad
at Newport
1500 cfs
5000 cfs Big Laurel (0" yellow gauge)
Nolichucky
at Embreeville
1000 cfs
Tellico at
Tellico Plains
300 cfs/1.9 ft
400 cfs/2.1 ft Ledges
2000 cfs Citico Creek
2500 cfs North River
Watauga at
Sugar Grove
300 cfs
Whites Creek
(Rhea Co.)
10" put-in bridge
1.5 Upper Whites Creek
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