Chickasawhatchee Creek at Elmodel, 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 02354500 sits on Chickasawhatchee Creek and reads everything draining 320 square miles of the Ichawaynochaway basin. Its datum sits 138 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1940, 41 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

One gauged site sits upstream of here. The closest is Chickasawhatchee Creek near Albany, GA, reading 118 square miles. This gauge adds the 202 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Ichawaynochaway Creek near Elmodel, GA at 1,000 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 32% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Ichawaynochaway Creek below Newton, GA and Flint River at Riverview Plantation, near Hopeful,ga.

Normal flows here

Chickasawhatchee Creek runs a median of 78 cfs at this gauge across 41 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 460 cfs, and September the leanest at 32 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 9,850 cfs in 1998, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2011.

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

Flood stages and record crests

Chickasawhatchee Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 10 feet. NWS starts watching it at 7 feet. The highest crest on record is 20 feet, in July 1994.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge ELMG1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.