Hood River Basin – Streamflow & Canal Gages

About the Hood River Basin

The Oregon Water Resources Department’s Hood Basin covers the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge from Cascade Locks east to The Dalles. Its main river, the Hood River, flows about 25 miles from the glaciers on the north and east slopes of Mount Hood to the Columbia at the city of Hood River; glacier melt gives it a milky summer color, and its water irrigates the pear, apple and cherry orchards of the Hood River Valley. The river is popular for whitewater boating and steelhead and salmon fishing, and the Columbia at Hood River is a world-famous windsurfing and kiteboarding area. East of the Cascade crest the land turns dry: Mosier, Mill, Fifteenmile and Eightmile creeks drain oak woodland, orchards and wheat country around Mosier, The Dalles and Dufur, and their late-summer flows are low. Fifteenmile Creek is one of the easternmost streams with wild winter steelhead. River Flow Planner covers 13 gages here: the USGS records for the Hood River at Tucker Bridge (since 1897), Mosier Creek and the Columbia River at The Dalles (since 1878), the Oregon Water Resources Department’s network of Fifteenmile and Eightmile Creek gages, and the East Fork Irrigation District canal.

What River Flow Planner shows for each gage

Each gage page turns the agency’s full daily record into planning tools for fishing, rafting, kayaking, swimming, boating, irrigation and in-stream work:

• Summary hydrograph of typical flows, river stages or lake levels through the year
• Percent of time flows fall within a range you choose
• Likely range of flows on future dates you pick
• How a recent period compares with normal, plus a year-by-year spaghetti plot
• Flood frequency statistics for USGS gages with peak-flow records
• CSV downloads and links to current real-time data and short-term forecasts

Hood River

The Hood River drains the north and east slopes of Mount Hood; its glacier-fed forks join near Dee and Parkdale.

Fifteenmile Creek

Oregon Water Resources Department gages on Fifteenmile Creek and its tributary Ramsey Creek, listed upstream to downstream.

Eightmile Creek

Eightmile Creek, a Fifteenmile Creek tributary south and east of The Dalles.

Mosier Creek & Columbia River

Mosier Creek in the Columbia River Gorge and the Columbia River below The Dalles Dam.

Canals & Diversions

Irrigation canal flow in the Hood River Valley.

Other basins

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