Gulf Coast Gauges

Bogue Falaya at Covington water level

USGS gauge 07375170 · St. Tammany Parish · New Orleans and the Northshore · NWS gauge LRCL1

3.85 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 2:30 PM CDT · 3 hours ago

Highest since 1999 (USGS)
24.20 ft (July 1, 2003)
Usual range
3.86 to 4.00 ft

USGS marks recent readings as provisional: they can be revised after review.

No National Weather Service alert covering St. Tammany Parish was active when this page was generated (Oct 23, 2026 at 5:05 PM CDT). Alerts are issued and expire at any time; the current list is at alerts.weather.gov.

Last 7 days

3.9 4.1 4.3 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23

Hourly averages of USGS readings. The shaded band is this gauge's usual range: the middle 80% of its readings since September 11, 2026.

How to read this gauge

Gage height is the height of the water surface above the gauge's zero point. This gauge's zero is set at 0 ft NAVD88, so its gage height is the water surface elevation above that datum. It is not a water depth.

Daily highs and lows since September 11, 2026

3.9 4.1 4.3 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 1964

In 27 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 1999), the highest peak was 24.20 ft on July 1, 2003. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 4.15 ft on October 9, 2026.

3 8 14 20 26 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 Water year 1964: 19.66 ft on April 27, 1964 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1966: 17.77 ft on February 13, 1966 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1967: 12.83 ft on April 14, 1967 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1969: 10.71 ft on April 13, 1969 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1971: 14.46 ft on September 16, 1971 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1972: 18.73 ft on May 8, 1972 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1973: 18.99 ft on March 24, 1973 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1974: 15.23 ft on March 27, 1974 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1975: 17.61 ft on May 8, 1975 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1977: 17.11 ft on April 22, 1977 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1978: 10.31 ft on January 24, 1978 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1979: 9.38 ft on April 24, 1979 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1980: 13.03 ft on May 17, 1980 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1981: 10.47 ft on February 11, 1981 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1982: 8.60 ft on February 2, 1982 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1983: 23.58 ft on April 8, 1983 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1998: 21.42 ft on March 8, 1998 (different datum or site: not compared) Water year 1999: 12.78 ft on March 14, 1999 Water year 2000: 12.71 ft on October 9, 1999 Water year 2001: 22.26 ft on June 11, 2001 Water year 2002: 21.49 ft on September 26, 2002 Water year 2003: 24.20 ft on July 1, 2003 Water year 2004: 12.57 ft on May 13, 2004 Water year 2005: 17.86 ft on August 30, 2005 Water year 2006: 10.23 ft on May 7, 2006 Water year 2007: 14.45 ft on December 31, 2006 Water year 2008: 21.56 ft on May 3, 2008 Water year 2009: 16.52 ft on March 27, 2009 Water year 2010: 13.51 ft on December 18, 2009 Water year 2011: 14.70 ft on March 6, 2011 Water year 2012: 22.95 ft on August 30, 2012 Water year 2013: 19.67 ft on January 12, 2013 Water year 2014: 17.95 ft on June 1, 2014 Water year 2015: 12.76 ft on May 22, 2015 Water year 2017: 15.58 ft on April 4, 2017 Water year 2018: 16.34 ft on April 15, 2018 Water year 2019: 20.35 ft on May 12, 2019 Water year 2020: 20.64 ft on May 15, 2020 Water year 2021: 24.11 ft on August 30, 2021 Water year 2022: 17.27 ft on October 28, 2021 Water year 2023: 17.48 ft on January 4, 2023 Water year 2024: 19.36 ft on September 12, 2024 Water year 2025: 8.81 ft on August 29, 2025 Water year 2026: 18.29 ft on May 10, 2026 Water year 2027 so far: 4.15 ft on October 9, 2026 2003 2021 2012

Each dot is the highest gage height of a water year (October to September), from the USGS annual peak record, with recent years USGS has not published yet taken from its 15-minute readings and this site's own; hover a dot for its date. Dashed lines are NWS flood stages. Grey hollow dots (17 years) were measured on a different datum or at a different site, or before the gauge's datum last changed, so they are shown but not compared.

NWS historic crests

DateCrestAbove minor flood stage
March 11, 201627.43 ft—
August 13, 201617.00 ft—
January 24, 20198.89 ft—

The highest crests the National Weather Service lists for this gauge, as published. They can differ from the USGS annual peaks above: USGS records the year's highest gage height, which is not always the crest the NWS lists for the same flood.

Download the readings

bogue-falaya-at-covington.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,047 rows, with time in UTC and Central, gage height in feet, and the USGS approval status.

Source. Gage height from the U.S. Geological Survey. This site is not affiliated with either agency.