Chattahoochee River 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.

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About this gauge

USGS gauge 02334500 sits on the Chattahoochee River and reads everything draining 1,060 square miles of the Upper Chattahoochee basin. Its datum sits 905 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow is on record here from 1956 to 1971, 16 years in all.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Three gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Chattahoochee River at Buford Dam, near Buford, GA, reading 1,040 square miles. Downstream the next reading comes from Chattahoochee River 0.76 Mi US Mcginnis Fy Suwanee GA at 1,090 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 97% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Chattahoochee River near Norcross, GA, Chattahoochee River above Roswell, GA and Chattahoochee River below Morgan Falls Dam, GA.

Normal flows here

The Chattahoochee River runs a median of 1,410 cfs at this gauge across 16 years of record. August is the fullest month at a median 1,990 cfs, and February the leanest at 931 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 9,710 cfs in 1964, and the lowest is 262 cfs in 1958.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1956 to 1971. 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.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Buford Dam sits 3 miles 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 3 miles
• Morgan Falls Dam 20 miles