The live level and flow of the Moira at the Foxboro gauge, with the spring-freshet story and Quinte Conservation's flood messages.
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The Moira drops into the Bay of Quinte at downtown Belleville. Most of the year it behaves; in spring it swells with snowmelt — the freshet — and some years it floods. This page reads the Water Survey of Canada gauge near Foxboro, so you can watch the river the way the flood-watchers do.
7.23 m
Within its recent range. Steady over the past few days. Measured 9 Jul, 16:15.
The official flood warning is at Quinte Conservation
These numbers describe the river. They are not a flood warning — the official flood-vigilance level for this station is set by Quinte Conservation.
Flood messages for the Moira come from Quinte Conservation, in three steps: a Watershed Conditions Statement (a heads-up), a Flood Watch (flooding possible — prepare), and a Flood Warning (flooding imminent or happening — act). Office: 613-968-3434.
The Water Survey of Canada station sits about 10 km north of downtown, at Foxboro — the area hit worst in the April 2014 flood. A rise there is a rise heading for the city.
April 2014 brought record heights, a state of emergency and hundreds of volunteers sandbagging around Foxboro. April 2025 put parts of the Riverfront Trail underwater. In spring 2026, Quinte Conservation went from a flood outlook (10 March) to a Flood Watch (5 April) before standing down on 22 April — that ladder of messages is the rhythm of a Belleville spring.
Checked 9 Jul, 16:44. River data from the Water Survey of Canada (Environment and Climate Change Canada), under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Real-time readings are provisional and unvalidated, and may later be revised.