Chattahoochee River near Leaf, 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 02331000 sits on the Chattahoochee River and reads everything draining 150 square miles of the Upper Chattahoochee basin. Its datum sits 1,219 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1940, 49 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Chattahoochee River at Helen, GA, reading 45 square miles. This gauge adds the 105 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Chattahoochee River near Cornelia, GA at 315 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 48% of the water measured there. It then enters Chattahoochee River near Gainesville, GA, below which releases set the flow.

Normal flows here

The Chattahoochee River runs a median of 304 cfs at this gauge across 49 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 504 cfs, and September the leanest at 176 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 13,500 cfs in 1967, and the lowest is 59 cfs in 2009.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1940 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.