Durham Reservoirs Dashboard
Lake Michie · Flat River watershed · updated Oct 24, 5:35 PM ET
Source readings from USGS and the City of Durham are provisional and subject to revision. Every value is shown with the time it was observed.
30-day inflow & outflow
Cubic feet per second (cfs) on a shared axis. From USGS instantaneous values.
Reservoir elevation
Daily snapshots of the City of Durham's published elevation, stored by this dashboard. Points before 2026-07-19 were digitized from the City's 30-day chart image (±0.3 ft) and are excluded from trend calculations. Provisional.
Rainfall near Lake Michie
updated 4 hr ago- Rougemont · upstream of Lake Michie
- 0.00 in today
- Timberlake · upstream of Lake Michie
- 0.00 in today
Source: Weather Underground personal weather stations (hobbyist gauges near or upstream of the reservoir — accuracy and siting vary). Daily totals reset at local midnight; today's bar is rain so far. Today's value is the mean across reporting stations.
Recovery interpretation
More water is leaving below the dam than the Lake Michie watershed is bringing in (about -1.1 cfs net), suggesting the reservoir is drawing down.
Estimate only. Net surface flow (inflow − outflow) excludes municipal withdrawals, smaller tributaries, direct rainfall, evaporation, groundwater exchange, and travel-time between gauges. It is not an exact reservoir water balance.