Chattahoochee River above Bear Creek, near Rico, 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 02337260 sits on the Chattahoochee River and reads everything draining 2,130 square miles of the Middle Chattahoochee-Lake Harding basin. Daily flow has been on record here since 2022, 3 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Seven gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Chattahoochee River near Fairburn, GA, reading 2,060 square miles. This gauge adds the 70 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Chattahoochee River near Whitesburg, GA at 2,430 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 88% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Chattahoochee River at GA 100, at Franklin, GA.

Normal flows here

The Chattahoochee River runs a median of 2,495 cfs at this gauge across 3 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 4,740 cfs, and October the leanest at 1,670 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 30,200 cfs in 2024, and the lowest is 1,150 cfs in 2024.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2022 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.