Chattahoochee River Buford Dam near Buford, 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 02334401 sits on Chattahoochee River Buford Dam and reads everything draining 1,034 square miles of the Upper Chattahoochee basin. Its datum sits essentially at sea level NAVD88.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Lake Sidney Lanier near Buford, GA sits immediately upstream, so dam releases rather than rainfall set the flow here. Two gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Chattahoochee River near Gainesville, GA, reading 576 square miles. This gauge adds the 458 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Chattahoochee River at Buford Dam, near Buford, GA at 1,040 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 99% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Chattahoochee River near Buford, GA, Chattahoochee River 0.76 Mi US Mcginnis Fy Suwanee GA and Chattahoochee River near Norcross, GA.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Buford Dam sits 1 mile from this gauge and its releases set what this gauge reads. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• Buford Dam 1 mile
• Morgan Falls Dam 22 miles