If you are planning a paddling outing, you now have more information on flow conditions on more local streams, courtesy of the United States Geological Survey.
USGS, which has maintained an online real-time streamflow site for Florida for several years, has recently added a number of streams where the agency had flow data but had not included the data in its online site.
The new locations include Tiger Creek near Babson Park, Livingston Creek near Frostproof and more locations along the Peace River.
Still missing is the discharge from Lake Hancock and the P11 structure south of the lake.
It appears the Southwest Florida Water Management District has been releasing water from the structure or the outfall from its treatment wetlands because the upper reaches of the Peace River data is showing an increase in flow despite lack of rain and declining flow in the Peace Creek Canal, the main tributary near Bartow.
I generally don’t recommend putting in at the Bartow boat launch unless flow there is at least 50 cfs of flow. I haven’t studied the relationship between flow data and stream navigability at other locations.
The USGS site can be viewed at https://waterdata.usgs.gov/fl/nwis/current/?type=flow .
Happy paddling.