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Live river level, flow, historical records and forecast for Salt Crk below Nephi Powerplant Div near Nephi in UT, United States, built from official government gauge data.
Salt Creek below Nephi Powerplant Div near Nephi is in the Utah Lake watershed, Utah.
This station has 33 years on record.
The highest level in the file is 8.11 ft (2.47 m), reached in November 2020. The lowest is 2.1 ft (0.64 m), reached in February 2024. That span gives a sense of the full range a dock, bank intake, or shallow crossing has had to handle here.
Seasonally, the creek is usually highest in May at 5.09 ft (1.55 m) and lowest in January at 4.56 ft (1.39 m). The typical annual swing is 6.3 in (16 cm). For a person living or fishing on this water, that means the day-to-day shape is fairly tight most of the year, but the station still has seen levels well outside that usual band.
No fastest 24-hour rise is listed in the record provided, so there is no warning-time figure to quote here.
The gauge drains 81 sq mi (210 km2) above the station. That is the upstream area feeding this reading, not the full Utah Lake watershed.
The regional pattern here is snowmelt-dominated mountain and basin hydrology, with the main peak usually arriving in April-June. Late-summer monsoon thunderstorms can also bring sharp local rises, while the dry season tends to leave flows lower. On this creek, the record and the seasonal pattern fit that kind of year: the highest typical month is May, while January is the low point of the average cycle.
This page’s hero number should be read against the median for the same calendar day, not against the raw level alone. A single elevation can look high or low out of context; the day-of-year median shows whether the creek is running above its usual seasonal position for this date.
The source is the U.S. Geological Survey. With 33 years on record, that comparison is based on a long local history, which is what makes it useful for daily decisions at a crossing, intake, or fishing access.
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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