Durham Reservoirs Dashboard

Little River Reservoir · Little River watershed · updated Oct 24, 5:33 PM ET

Methodology & sources

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.

Reservoir elevation
Unavailable
Unavailable
as of no data
Inflow · Little River
Current
0.23 cfs
24h avg 0.25 · 7d avg 0.34 cfs
≈ 0.1 MGD
~12th percentile for this date · median 3.86 cfs (1995–2025, 31 yrs)
Little River 0.23 · Mountain Creek 0.00 cfs · combined from 2 gauges (see methodology)
as of 18 min ago
Downstream flow · Fairntosh
Current
0.81 cfs
7d avg 2.08 cfs · 0.5 MGD
Gauge sits below the Little River Tributary confluence, so readings include tributary flow (not pure dam release) and are often suppressed by USGS as backwater-affected.
as of 48 min ago
Current direction
Unknown
requires elevation history or downstream discharge
Direction is never inferred from inflow alone.

30-day inflow & outflow

Cubic feet per second (cfs) on a shared axis. From USGS instantaneous values.

Little RiverMountain CreekOutflow (Fairntosh)

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.

Elevation (ft msl)Full pool (355.00 ft)

Rainfall near Little River Reservoir

updated 4 hr ago
0.00in today
0.00 in over the last 7 days
Stations
Treyburn · near Little River dam
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

Flows are monitored for Little River Reservoir, but its downstream gauge includes tributary flow, so direction is only reported from measured lake elevation.

Elevation 24h
n/a
needs snapshot history
7-day inflow volume
2 MG
million gallons
Net surface flow (now)
-0.58 cfs
Net surface flow (7d avg)
-1.74 cfs
7-day outflow volume
9 MG
million gallons
7-day net surface volume
-8 MG
measured surface only

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.

Source status

Little River inflow
0208521324 + 0208524090 · provisional
18 min ago
Oct 24, 5:15 PM ET
Current
Downstream flow · Fairntosh
0208524975 · provisional
48 min ago
Oct 24, 4:45 PM ET
Current
City of Durham — Little River Reservoir elevation
durhamnc.gov/1225 · HTTP 403 from https://www.durhamnc.gov/1225/Lake-Levels
no data
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Unavailable