Garner Creek near Snellville, 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 02207000 sits on Garner Creek and reads everything draining 5.3 square miles of the Upper Ocmulgee basin. Its datum sits 832 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow is on record here from 1954 to 1963, 10 years in all.

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 Yellow River at GA 124, near Lithonia, GA at 161 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 3% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Yellow River at Pleasant Hill Road, near Lithonia,ga, Yellow River at Milstead, GA and Yellow River at Gees Mill Road, near Milstead, GA.

Normal flows here

Garner Creek runs a median of 3.4 cfs at this gauge across 10 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 7.1 cfs, and September the leanest at 1.8 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 374 cfs in 1961, and the lowest is 0.6 cfs in 1955.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1954 to 1963. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median. USGS stopped publishing a daily flow record at this gauge, so these are historical norms, not a baseline for current readings.

Flood stages and record crests

The highest crest on record is 11.8 feet, in October 2009.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge GARG1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Morgan Falls Dam is 18 miles from this gauge. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• Morgan Falls Dam 18 miles
• Buford Dam 21 miles