Echeconnee Creek at Houston Rd, near Byron, 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 02214075 sits on Echeconnee Creek and reads everything draining 228 square miles of the Upper Ocmulgee basin. Its datum sits 267 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2010, 17 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 Ocmulgee River at GA 96, near Bonaire, GA at 3,350 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 7% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

Echeconnee Creek runs a median of 122 cfs at this gauge across 17 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 260 cfs, and September the leanest at 68 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 9,850 cfs in 2023, and the lowest is 28 cfs in 2013.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2010 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Echeconnee Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 15 feet. NWS starts watching it at 13 feet. The highest crest on record is 18.4 feet, in March 2023.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge BYNG1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.