Sweetwater Creek near Austell, 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 02337000 sits on Sweetwater Creek and reads everything draining 238 square miles of the Middle Chattahoochee-Lake Harding basin. Its datum sits 857 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 1904, 91 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Two gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Sweetwater Creek 0.05 Mi US Rr Bridge at Austell, GA, reading 157 square miles. This gauge adds the 81 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Sweetwater Creek below Austell, GA at 262 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 91% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Chattahoochee River near Fairburn, GA, Chattahoochee River above Bear Creek, near Rico, GA and Chattahoochee River near Whitesburg, GA.

Normal flows here

Sweetwater Creek runs a median of 172 cfs at this gauge across 91 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 388 cfs, and September the leanest at 78 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 27,700 cfs in 2009, and the lowest is 0.6 cfs in 2017.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1904 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 10 feet. NWS starts watching it at 8 feet. The highest crest on record is 30.8 feet, in September 2009.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge AUSG1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Morgan Falls Dam is 19 miles from this gauge. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• Morgan Falls Dam 19 miles