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USGS Gauge 03460795 — Pigeon R Bl Power Plant Nr Waterville, Nc, North Carolina

Water temperature 67.3 °F. 1.0 °F above the five-year normal for this date. 147 cfs.

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35.7836111, -83.1119444. This gauge on USGS Water Data →

Right now

Live from USGS — the numbers above are current rather than whenever the page was written. The normal is the mean of every reading at this gauge within 3 days of this calendar date in the previous years of record — 13 readings, averaging 66.3 °F.

The last thirty days

Water temperature, °F · daily mean
2026-09-01 67.3–74.7 °F 2026-09-30
Streamflow, cfs · daily mean
2026-08-29 127–869 cfs 2026-09-29

Daily means from USGS. A gap in the line is a gap in the record.

The record at this gauge

Month Mean temp Mean flow
Jan — 1,259
Feb — 1,643
Mar — 1,379
Apr — 1,112
May — 1,190
Jun 67.8 °F 736
Jul 72.4 °F 636
Aug 72.1 °F 694
Sep 70.0 °F 878
Oct — 558
Nov — 447
Dec — 777

Computed here from the last 5 years of USGS daily values at this gauge — 598 temperature days over 4.3 years and 1,821 flow days. These are not USGS-published normals, and a month with fewer than 20 days of record is left blank rather than averaged.

The water it stands in

Whaley Branch, classified Wild Trout Waters (wild) by NCWRC — the nearest reach carrying that classification is 0.87 mi from the gauge.

Dams near this gauge

A dam upstream of a gauge moves what the gauge reads. A hydro dam moves it on a release schedule this page does not know.

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