If the Creek Don’t Rise

Two years ago this month the river rose to record levels, causing mayhem and personal tragedies for miles up and down its shores. Stay informed about current and predicted future river levels by watching the real-time river gauge data online.

NOAA makes free river level charts available on the weather.gov website. You can see the chart for Ottawa’s gauge here, or you can simply click this new link in the right column of the SYRC home page, below the events calendar. From there, you can click the links to view the upstream (Marseilles) or downstream (below the Starved Rock Lock) gauges.

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