Big Haynes Creek at Lenora Road, near Snellville, 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.

Last 30 days

About this gauge

USGS gauge 02207385 sits on Big Haynes Creek and reads everything draining 17 square miles of the Upper Ocmulgee basin. Its datum sits 843 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2001, 25 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

No gauged site sits above this one on the mainstem, so this is the first published reading on the river. Downstream the next reading comes from Randy Poynter Lake at Spillway, near Milstead, GA at 43 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 40% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Big Haynes Creek at Jack Turner Dam,nr Milstead GA, Big Haynes Creek at Bald Rock Road, near Milstead GA and Yellow River Rocky Plains Rd near Rocky Plains, GA.

Normal flows here

Big Haynes Creek runs a median of 15 cfs at this gauge across 25 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 26 cfs, and October the leanest at 8.6 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 949 cfs in 2019, and the lowest is 1.5 cfs in 2012.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2001 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Big Haynes Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 10 feet. NWS starts watching it at 8 feet. The highest crest on record is 12.7 feet, in April 2019.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge BIGG1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Buford Dam is 24 miles from this gauge. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• Buford Dam 24 miles