Gulf Coast Gauges

Company Canal at Salt Barrier near Lockport water level

USGS gauge 07381355 · Lafourche Parish · Houma–Thibodaux · NWS gauge CCLL1

2.43 ft

gage height, Oct 23, 2026 at 2:00 PM CDT · 3 hours ago

Highest since 2003 (USGS)
4.97 ft (September 14, 2008)
Usual range
2.15 to 2.96 ft

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

No National Weather Service alert covering Lafourche 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

1.7 2.3 3.0 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 this gauge's own zero point, which sits at -1.18 ft NAVD88. It is not a water depth and not an elevation: add -1.18 ft to get the water surface elevation.

Daily highs and lows since September 11, 2026

1.7 2.5 3.3 2026-09-11 – 2026-10-23 · bars are daily low to high

Annual peaks since 2003

In 24 complete water years of comparable USGS records (since 2003), the highest peak was 4.97 ft on September 14, 2008. So far in water year 2027 (since October 1) the highest reading is 3.27 ft on October 4, 2026, higher than the annual peak in 6 of 24 years.

3 3 4 4 5 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 Water year 2003: 3.34 ft on July 1, 2003 Water year 2004: 2.71 ft on October 10, 2003 Water year 2005: 4.44 ft on September 25, 2005 Water year 2006: 2.80 ft on October 4, 2005 Water year 2007: 3.73 ft on June 2, 2007 Water year 2008: 4.97 ft on September 14, 2008 Water year 2009: 3.46 ft on March 27, 2009 Water year 2010: 3.52 ft on July 7, 2010 Water year 2011: 4.48 ft on September 4, 2011 Water year 2012: 4.15 ft on August 31, 2012 Water year 2013: 3.13 ft on September 22, 2013 Water year 2014: 3.07 ft on October 6, 2013 Water year 2015: 3.22 ft on May 26, 2015 Water year 2016: 3.87 ft on October 27, 2015 Water year 2017: 3.75 ft on June 23, 2017 Water year 2018: 3.32 ft on April 14, 2018 Water year 2019: 3.56 ft on October 10, 2018 Water year 2020: 3.65 ft on June 9, 2020 Water year 2021: 4.53 ft on August 30, 2021 Water year 2022: 3.29 ft on May 26, 2022 Water year 2023: 3.21 ft on September 30, 2023 Water year 2024: 4.22 ft on September 11, 2024 Water year 2025: 3.56 ft on April 6, 2025 Water year 2026: 3.30 ft on October 6, 2025 Water year 2027 so far: 3.27 ft on October 4, 2026 2008 2021 2011

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.

NWS historic crests

DateCrestAbove minor flood stage
September 14, 20084.97 ft—
September 4, 20114.48 ft—
September 25, 20054.44 ft—
August 31, 20124.15 ft—
October 27, 20153.87 ft—
June 2, 20073.73 ft—
May 1, 20163.60 ft—
May 4, 20173.53 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

company-canal-at-salt-barrier-near-lockport.csv (CSV): every reading stored for this gauge since September 11, 2026, 4,044 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.