Sweetwater Creek at Club Drive near Lilburn, 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 02205865 sits on Sweetwater Creek and reads everything draining 21 square miles of the Upper Ocmulgee basin. Its datum sits 852 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2010, 16 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 Sweetwater Creek at US 29, near Luxomni, GA at 48 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 44% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Yellow River near Luxomni, GA, Yellow River near Snellville, GA and Yellow River at GA 124, near Lithonia, GA.

Normal flows here

Sweetwater Creek runs a median of 15 cfs at this gauge across 16 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 25 cfs, and October the leanest at 5.2 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 1,520 cfs in 2024, and the lowest is 0.3 cfs in 2011.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2010 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Sweetwater Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 11 feet. NWS starts watching it at 9 feet. The highest crest on record is 15.9 feet, in September 2009.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge STWG1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Buford Dam is 15 miles from this gauge. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• Buford Dam 15 miles
• Morgan Falls Dam 16 miles