Richland Creek at Harding Place at Belle Meade, TN Flow & Water Level

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 03431655 sits on Richland Creek and reads everything draining 6.2 square miles of the Lower Cumberland-Sycamore basin.

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 Richland Creek at Charlotte Ave, at Nashville, TN at 24 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 25% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Cumberland River at Ashland City, TN and Cumberland River below Cheatham Dam, TN. It then enters Cheatham Reservoir near Ashland City, TN, below which releases set the flow.

Flood stages and record crests

Richland Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 7 feet. NWS starts watching it at 5 feet. The highest crest on record is 10.2 feet, in February 2019.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge BMDT1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

TVA dams near this gauge

TVA's J Percy Priest Dam is 14 miles from this gauge on the Stones system. Planned generation, lake level and tailwater elevation for it load below when TVA has published them.

• J Percy Priest Dam 14 miles
• Old Hickory Dam 18 miles
• Cheatham Dam 24 miles