Big Haynes Creek at Bald Rock Road, near Milstead GA Water Level Today

NWS river forecast

Forecast from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service. Issued a few times a day and only while a forecast is active. Not for navigation.

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About this gauge

USGS gauge 02207448 sits on Big Haynes Creek and reads everything draining 82 square miles of the Upper Ocmulgee basin. Its datum sits 628 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow is on record here from 2002 to 2018, 15 years in all.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Three gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Big Haynes Creek at Jack Turner Dam,nr Milstead GA, reading 46 square miles. This gauge adds the 36 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Yellow River Rocky Plains Rd near Rocky Plains, GA at 428 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 19% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Ocmulgee River near Jackson, GA. It then enters Jackson Lake Lloyd Shoals near Jackson, GA, below which releases set the flow.

Normal flows here

Big Haynes Creek runs a median of 37 cfs at this gauge across 15 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 101 cfs, and August the leanest at 20 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 3,000 cfs in 2003, and the lowest is 0.3 cfs in 2012.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2002 to 2018. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median. USGS stopped publishing a daily flow record at this gauge, so these are historical norms, not a baseline for current readings.

Flood stages and record crests

Big Haynes Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 12 feet. NWS starts watching it at 9 feet. The highest crest on record is 22.5 feet, in September 2009.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge BHCG1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.