Richland Creek at Suwanee Dam 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 02334480 sits on Richland Creek and reads everything draining 9.4 square miles of the Upper Chattahoochee basin. Its datum sits 924 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1996, 26 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 Chattahoochee River near Buford, GA at 1,060 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 1% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Chattahoochee River 0.76 Mi US Mcginnis Fy Suwanee GA, Chattahoochee River near Norcross, GA and Chattahoochee River above Roswell, GA.

Normal flows here

Richland Creek runs a median of 10 cfs at this gauge across 26 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 16 cfs, and September the leanest at 6.9 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 683 cfs in 1996, and the lowest is 1.5 cfs in 2012.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1996 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Richland Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 10 feet. NWS starts watching it at 8 feet. The highest crest on record is 10.4 feet, in May 2013.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge RLCG1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Buford Dam is 2 miles from this gauge. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• Buford Dam 2 miles
• Morgan Falls Dam 21 miles