Spencer Creek at Dundas Water Level
Live river level, flow, historical records and forecast for Spencer Creek at Dundas in ON, Canada, built from official government gauge data.
- Location ON, Canada
- Watershed credit 16 mile
- Primary gauge 02HB007 (Water Survey of Canada)
About Spencer Creek at Dundas
Spencer Creek in the Credit - 16 Mile watershed, Ontario.
Season by season
The seasonal pattern here is straightforward: the creek is usually highest in March at 6.26 m (20.55 ft) and usually lowest in September at 6 m (19.68 ft).
For people along the creek, that spread matters because docks, intakes, and bank access all have to work across the year, not just on one calm day. The typical annual swing is 26.4 cm (10.4 in), so the water surface changes, but not by a wide margin.
The regional pattern also points to a spring freshet, then a summer drawdown, then an early-winter decline. That is the broad rhythm to expect when checking water levels through the year.
Records and rises
The record high is 6.81 m (22.33 ft) in January 2014, and the record low is 5.92 m (19.41 ft) in October 2022.
Those two marks bracket what this station has shown over 42 years on record. For anyone using the creek, the record high is the level to keep in mind for high-water access and edge-of-bank exposure, while the record low is the shallowest end of the range the station has seen.
There is no fastest 24-hour rise value in the facts for this station, so I will not guess at warning time from this record.
Reading the hero number
The hero number on this page is the current reading at the station. The best way to read it is against the median for this calendar day, not just against the raw elevation, because the median shows whether the creek is unusually high or low for the date.
This station is operated by the Water Survey of Canada, and the comparison is grounded in more than 42 years on record. That longer record is what makes a day-by-day median useful: it puts today’s level into the creek’s usual seasonal range, instead of treating every centimetre as if it meant the same thing in every month.
How this page is built
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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