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Live river levels on your own website.

On a river system the gauge decides what can launch and what cannot. This puts the current reading on your own page rather than leaving boaters to find it themselves. Pick the reach, paste one snippet, and it stays current.

  • No account
  • No API key
  • Free forever

River gauge

Live streamflow, water level and water temperature for any gauged reach, with a seven day trend.

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Data
USGS Water Services, read straight from the visitor’s browser

Find your marina and this becomes your snippet, ready to paste.

Pick a river reach How it works, and where to paste it →

What it shows

  • Gauge height, the reading that governs ramp and clearance decisions
  • Streamflow in cubic feet per second
  • Water temperature where the gauge reports it
  • A seven day trend, so a rising or falling river reads at a glance

Who puts it up

Marinas and ramps on river systems, rental fleets, river cruise and charter operators, and lake associations below a controlled release.

You do not need a listing with Boating Hubs to use it, and you do not need to claim one. If you have a listing, claiming it is free and lets you fix what visitors see when they click through.

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Where to paste it

Squarespace

Edit the page, add a block, choose Code, and paste the snippet in. Leave the block set to HTML.

Wix

Add → Embed Code → Embed HTML, then paste the snippet into the Code box.

WordPress

Add a Custom HTML block and paste it in. In the classic editor, switch to the Text tab first.

Anywhere else, the rule is the same: it goes wherever your editor accepts raw HTML. Paste the whole snippet, including the plain link, which is the part that keeps working if the script is ever blocked.

Questions

Before you paste

Any reach with an active USGS discharge gauge. That covers rivers and many controlled pools, but not open coastal water, where the marine forecast widget is the right tool instead.

USGS Water Services, read directly by your visitor’s browser rather than proxied through us. Most gauges report every 15 to 60 minutes.

It is free, with no account, no API key and no limit on how many people load it. The catch, stated plainly: the snippet includes a visible link back to us, and that link is what the widget costs you. If you would rather not link out, do not use it.

No on both. The script is about 14KB, loads asynchronously so it never blocks your page, and pulls no fonts, frameworks or tracking. It draws inside a shadow root, which is a sealed boundary: your CSS cannot reach in and its CSS cannot leak out.

No. It sets no cookies, stores nothing on the device and sends us no identifiers. It asks for one location’s data and renders the answer.

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One more step

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Claim the listing it points at.

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