Swift Creek near Lithonia, 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 02207200 sits on Swift Creek and reads everything draining 5.7 square miles of the Upper Ocmulgee basin. Its datum sits 749 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 Yellow River at Pleasant Hill Road, near Lithonia,ga at 213 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 3% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Yellow River at Milstead, GA, Yellow River at Gees Mill Road, near Milstead, GA and Yellow River Rocky Plains Rd near Rocky Plains, GA. It then enters Jackson Lake Lloyd Shoals near Jackson, GA, below which releases set the flow.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Morgan Falls Dam is 23 miles from this gauge. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• Morgan Falls Dam 23 miles