Chattanooga Creek at Ga193, near Flintstone, 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 03568400 sits on Chattanooga Creek and reads everything draining 49 square miles of the Middle Tennessee-Chickamauga basin. Its datum sits 655 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2016, 9 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 Nickajack Lake at 21,870 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 0% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Chattanooga Creek runs a median of 34 cfs at this gauge across 9 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 124 cfs, and October the leanest at 8.2 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 1,760 cfs in 2018, and the lowest is 1.2 cfs in 2017.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2016 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Chattanooga Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 10 feet. NWS starts watching it at 8 feet. The highest crest on record is 10.8 feet, in April 2018.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge CCFG1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's Chickamauga Dam is 11 miles from this gauge on the Tennessee system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• Chickamauga Dam 11 miles
• Nickajack Dam 17 miles