GAULEY RELEASE LIVE

Follow the water through the Gauley Gorge.

Summersville Dam creates a moving river event. This tool tracks the release signal, estimates where that water is headed, and shows what is observed versus modeled.

Release status

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Checking USACE, USGS and NWS.

Effective flow below Meadow — Waiting for live hydrology

Release pulse — Arrival windows appear after release onset is observed.

Model confidence — Source freshness loading

Conditions index and modeled arrival windows describe the environment. They do not determine whether the river is safe for an individual paddler.

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FOLLOW THE WATER

The river is the moving object.

When release onset is observed, the model turns that signal into downstream arrival windows with widening uncertainty. The map line is a modeled control-point corridor; the basemap shows the detailed river channel.

Forecast Approaching Here now Passed

Pulse timeline Live position

GAULEY CONDITIONS

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Building the live picture

Release integrity, effective-flow context, weather, source confidence and access signals contribute to this environmental index.

Belva—

Meadow—

Tailwater stage—

Rain—

RIVER WEATHER

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Precipitation—

Wind—

Warnings—

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CONTEXT, NOT JUST CFS

How does this compare with Gauley release days?

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Belva daily mean, filtered to the recurring fall release-day calendar pattern.

Current modeled percentile —

Appears when a usable effective-flow estimate and historical sample are both available.

What changed? Waiting for trend

The app compares the last 24 hours of Belva flow and tailwater stage when available.

2026 NPS SEASON NOTICE

Access information that matters today.

Visitor mode only surfaces established public-use information. It does not recommend informal roadside or backcountry viewing points.

Tailwaters

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Mason’s Branch

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Private property

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Read the official NPS 2026 boating-season notice ↗

OBSERVED VS MODELED

No fake precision.

The tailwater gauge tells us when the river begins responding below the dam. USACE operations can confirm release-level outflow. Belva measures downstream discharge. The release-wave engine combines those signals only after onset evidence exists, then widens arrival uncertainty downstream.

ObservedUSGS stage & discharge

ObservedUSACE reservoir operations

ForecastNWS weather

ModeledGauley release-wave arrivals