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Live river level, flow, historical records and forecast for Boyne River near Carman in MB, Canada, built from official government gauge data.
Boyne River near Carman sits in the Morris watershed in Manitoba.
The seasonal pattern here is simple to read on a gauge. The typical high water comes in November at 253.11 m (830.41 ft), and the typical low water comes in February at 252.19 m (827.39 ft). That 92.3 cm (3 ft) swing is what docks, intakes, and shoreline access have to live with from year to year.
For Prairie users, the broad regional pattern is still useful: spring snowmelt floods are the main seasonal event, and summer tends toward recession. On this river, though, the record seasonal low is in September 2018 at 251.84 m (826.24 ft), so late-season water can be lower than the usual winter minimum.
The record high is 256.01 m (839.94 ft) in April 2017. The record low is 251.84 m (826.24 ft) in September 2018. That gap tells you this gauge has a wide operating range over time, even if day-to-day movement is usually much smaller than the full record span.
The catchment above the station is 1160 km2 (448 sq mi). That is the drainage area feeding this gauge, not the whole Morris watershed. For anyone watching this reach, the upstream area matters because it is the water source that sets the level here.
No fastest 24-hour rise is listed in the facts, so there is nothing to report on warning time from this station record.
The hero number on this page is most useful when you compare today’s reading with the median for this calendar day across the station record, rather than staring at the raw elevation by itself. A single level can look ordinary or unusual only when you know what this river usually does on the same date.
This station has 110 years of record, so that daily comparison carries a lot more context than one reading alone. At a Water Survey of Canada gauge, that is the number that tells you whether the river is sitting near its normal seasonal position for this date, above it, or below it.
Readings come from official government gauges and are rolled into daily records: the daily mean, high and low for every day on record. Each calendar day gets its own baseline from the full history, so the level you see is compared against what this specific date usually looks like rather than an annual average.
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