Whether the Moose Jaw River is running high right now, from the live gauge just east of the city, with the spring-runoff authority to watch.
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Is the Moose Jaw River running high? This reads the live gauge on the river just east of the city and shows how much water it's carrying right now, next to its recent range. Spring snowmelt is when the valley watches it.
16.0 m³/s
Within its recent range. Falling over the past few days. Measured 12 Jul, 10:10.
The official flood warning is at Water Security Agency of Saskatchewan
These numbers describe the river. They are not a flood warning — the official flood-vigilance level for this station is set by Water Security Agency of Saskatchewan.
Saskatchewan's provincial water authority — the spring runoff outlook and any high-flow advisories for the Moose Jaw River come from here, not from this page.
The gauge sits just east of the city at Burdick, where the Moose Jaw River leaves town after winding south through Wakamow Valley below the Kingsway Dam. It shows what the river is carrying away from Moose Jaw — a good read on the whole catchment above town. The level is metres above sea level (a survey datum), so watch how it moves rather than the number itself. Flow, in cubic metres per second, is the plainer measure of how much water is coming down.
This is a prairie river with a low, quiet flow most of the year that climbs with the March–May snowmelt. The Water Security Agency publishes a runoff outlook each spring and issues high-flow advisories when the melt is fast — that outlook, not this gauge, is the thing to follow when the snow goes.
In April 1974 a fast snowmelt and ice-jammed channels put much of the city under several feet of water — still the benchmark flood here. The low, valley areas along the river, including the Wakamow trails, are the first to go under when the river runs high.
Checked 12 Jul, 11:24. 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.