Ivy Creek at Thompson Mill Road, near Buford, 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 02334770 sits on Ivy Creek and reads everything draining 1.4 square miles of the Upper Chattahoochee basin. Its datum sits 1,107 feet above sea level NAVD88.

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 Suwanee Creek at Suwanee, GA at 47 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 3% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Chattahoochee River near Norcross, GA, Chattahoochee River above Roswell, GA and Chattahoochee River below Morgan Falls Dam, GA.

Flood stages and record crests

The highest crest on record is 22 feet, in September 2008.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge IVYG1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Buford Dam is 8 miles from this gauge. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• Buford Dam 8 miles