Live river level, flow, historical records and forecast for Epinette Creek near Carberry in MB, Canada, built from official government gauge data.
Epinette Creek in the Central Assiniboine - Cypress watershed, Manitoba.
This gauge has 64 years of record.
The highest level in the record is 1.49 m (4.9 ft), set in April 2011. The lowest is 0.09 m (0.3 ft), set in September 2015. That span matters on the ground: a shallow reach can look very different between those two ends of the record, and small craft, intakes, and crossings have to tolerate that shift.
Seasonally, the creek is usually highest in November at 0.89 m (2.92 ft) and lowest in February at 0.19 m (0.61 ft). The typical annual swing is 70.4 cm (27.7 in). For a dock, bank access, or a pump set close to the water, that is the range that has to be lived with year after year.
The fastest 24-hour rise in the record was 60.7 cm (23.9 in), in April 2009. The fastest 24-hour drop was 27.7 cm (10.9 in), in June 2012. Those are the kinds of changes that set the practical warning time here: a gauge can move quickly enough to change footing, access, and stage in a single day.
The station drains 390 km2 (151 sq mi) upstream of the gauge. That is the catchment above this point, not the whole named watershed.
In prairie hydrology, spring snowmelt floods are the defining event, and summer recession is common after the freshet passes. For this creek, the seasonal record also shows a late-autumn high and a winter low, so anyone watching the water should expect the strongest shifts to come with the season rather than from a steady level.
The hero number on this page should be read against the median level for this calendar day in the station record, not just against the raw elevation. That gives a better sense of whether today sits above or below the usual stage for this date.
This gauge is managed through Water Survey of Canada, and with more than 64 years on record, the comparison to the calendar-day median is the quickest way to place today’s reading in context for a neighbour, angler, or flood watcher.
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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