Etowah River Allatoona Dam Tw, above Cartersville,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 02393501 sits on Etowah River Allatoona Dam Tw, and reads everything draining 1,122 square miles of the Etowah basin. Its datum sits essentially at sea level NGVD29.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Allatoona Lake near Cartersville, GA sits immediately upstream, so dam releases rather than rainfall set the flow here. Two gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Etowah River at Canton, GA, reading 613 square miles. This gauge adds the 509 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Etowah River at GA 61, near Cartersville, GA at 1,345 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 83% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Etowah River near Kingston,ga, Etowah River at GA 1 Loop, near Rome, GA and Etowah River at Coosa Valley F.g, at Rome, GA.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Allatoona Dam sits 1 mile from this gauge and its releases set what this gauge reads. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• Allatoona Dam 1 mile
• Morgan Falls Dam 24 miles