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That River
Live river conditions for anglers and paddlers in all 50 states, rated in plain language, with community intel on top. Two sites, one engine.
- Fifty state dashboards on live USGS gauge data, refreshed every fifteen minutes
- Every gauge rated in plain language, for fishing and for floating
- Weather, rain and National Weather Service alerts on each river page
- Community intel, access points and local organizations, moderated before they publish
- An RSS feed per state, and hazards pinned on the river's map
- No build step, no framework, and a strict no-inline-script policy
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Go Fish That River 
Go Fish That River -
All fifty states, each with its rivers 
All fifty states, each with its rivers -
How the ratings work 
How the ratings work -
Go Float That River, the paddler's version 
Go Float That River, the paddler's version -
Built for a phone at the boat ramp 
Built for a phone at the boat ramp
That River is the family of river-conditions sites from Twelve Two Labs. It answers the question every angler and paddler asks before a drive: what is the river doing today? Each of the fifty states has a dashboard built on live data from USGS Water Services, refreshed every fifteen minutes, with each gauge rated in plain language instead of cubic feet per second.
Go Fish That River
Go Fish That River (opens in a new tab) speaks to anglers. Each gauge reads wadeable, caution, limited or blown out, with rain and forecast from Open-Meteo and active alerts from the National Weather Service on the river page.
Go Float That River
Go Float That River (opens in a new tab) runs the same engine with a paddler’s vocabulary: too low, good float, high and pushy, dangerous. The same gauges, rated for a different question.
Community intel
Every river page accepts three kinds of report from the public: conditions, hazards and the bite; a public access point with a map pin; or a local organization. Everything lands as pending and is reviewed before it publishes. Photos are stripped of location data twice. Intel fades after thirty days unless the reporter confirms it is still true, while access points and organizations stay. Hazards and access points are pinned on the river’s gauge map, and every state has an RSS feed.
How it is built
Both sites are static pages with a small API in front of the public data sources. There is no framework, no build step and no inline script, which keeps them fast on a phone at a boat ramp with one bar of signal. Start at thatriver.com (opens in a new tab).
Accessibility and standards
What That River is built and checked against, in plain words. These are our own checks, not third-party certifications. About these standards.
- Strict Content Security Policy
- The web pages tell the browser to run no outside scripts. That blocks a whole class of attacks and keeps third-party trackers out by construction.
- Photo metadata removed
- Photos you share or store lose the hidden details a camera embeds, such as GPS location, date and camera model, so a picture never gives away where you were.
- Your data in open formats
- Exports come out as CSV, JSON, Markdown, PDF or RSS: files any spreadsheet, text editor or reader can open, with no need for our software.
Questions about That River
Where does the river data come from?
Flow and gauge height come from USGS Water Services, the public network of stream gauges. Rain and forecasts come from Open-Meteo, and active warnings from the National Weather Service. Readings refresh every fifteen minutes.
What do the ratings mean?
On Go Fish That River a gauge reads wadeable, caution, limited or blown out. On Go Float That River the same gauge reads too low, good float, high and pushy, or dangerous. The thresholds are set per gauge, because a safe level on one river is a flood on another.
Can I report conditions or a hazard?
Yes. Every river page takes reports of conditions, hazards and the bite, public access points with a map pin, and local organizations. Everything is reviewed before it publishes, photos are stripped of location data, and intel fades after thirty days unless you confirm it is still true.