Fausett Creek near Talking Rock, 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 02381600 sits on Fausett Creek and reads everything draining 10.0 square miles of the Coosawattee basin. Its datum sits 1,312 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 1975, 52 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 Talking Rock Creek near Hinton, GA at 119 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 8% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Coosawattee River at Carters, GA, Coosawattee River near Pine Chapel, GA and Coosawattee River at Pine Chapel, GA. It then enters Carters Re-Regulation Lake near Carters, GA, below which releases set the flow.

Normal flows here

Fausett Creek runs a median of 11 cfs at this gauge across 52 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 20 cfs, and September the leanest at 5.8 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 831 cfs in 1990, and the lowest is 0.1 cfs in 2008.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1975 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Fausett Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 10 feet. NWS starts watching it at 7 feet. The highest crest on record is 17.8 feet, in December 2015.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge FCTG1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Carters Rereg Dam is 13 miles from this gauge. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• Carters Rereg Dam 13 miles
• Blue Ridge Dam 24 miles