Chickasawhatchee Creek near Albany, 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 02354350 sits on Chickasawhatchee Creek and reads everything draining 118 square miles of the Ichawaynochaway basin. Its datum sits 208 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2011, 16 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 Chickasawhatchee Creek at Elmodel, GA at 320 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 37% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Ichawaynochaway Creek near Elmodel, GA, Ichawaynochaway Creek below Newton, GA and Flint River at Riverview Plantation, near Hopeful,ga.

Normal flows here

Chickasawhatchee Creek runs a median of 47 cfs at this gauge across 16 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 172 cfs, and October the leanest at 21 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 2,170 cfs in 2024, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 2011.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2011 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.