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Gauge Information

Gauge Description:

For most of modern paddling history the TVA gauge Little Pigeon at Sevierville has been used to speculate on flows on the Middle Prong. 2000 cfs was a good indicator for a reasonable run.

Now there is a better way. There is a gauge called Little Pigeon above Sevierville which measures the flow of only the Middle Prong and the East Fork of the Little Pigeon. This more accurately conveys flows in the upper stretches of the Middle Prong, as the West Prong is not included in the values recorded at this gauge location. This spot is four miles upstream of the West Prong confluence, and only around 6 or 8 miles below this run.

Assuming decent water table saturation and a wet season, levels of 500 cfs and up are navigable, with levels of around 700 -1000 being optimum. This run will go the day after the one upstream, and holds really nicely, with a watershed of over 70 square miles.

Gauge Information

Name

Range

Difficulty

Updated

Level

LITTLE PIGEON RIVER ABOVE SEVIERVILLE, TN

usgs-03469175

500 - 5000 cfs

II-III

2y122d15h54m

227 cfs (rc= -0.1 )

Range	Water Level	Difficulty	Comment
500 -5000 cfs	barely runnable-high runnable	II-III

Report - Reports of Little Pigeon, Middle Prong 4. Highway 73 to Richardson Cove and related gauges

Reports give the public a chance to report on river conditions throughout the country as well as log the history of a river.

Reports

When	River/Gauge	Subject	Level	Reporter
	Little Pigeon, Middle Prong4. Highway 73 to Richardson Cove [ ]	mid flight	n/a	Kirk Eddlemon