Tallulah River at Terrora Pwrhse, near Tallulah Falls,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.

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About this gauge

USGS gauge 02181350 sits on the Tallulah River and reads everything draining 181 square miles of the Tugaloo basin. Its datum sits 1,551 feet above sea level NGVD29. Daily flow has been on record here since 2015, 11 years of it.

Where this gauge sits in the drainage

Three gauged sites sit upstream of here. The closest is Lake Rabun Mathis near Lakemont, GA, reading 151 square miles. This gauge adds the 30 square miles that drain in between. Downstream the next reading comes from Tallulah River above Powerhouse, near Tallulah Falls,ga at 184 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 98% of the water measured there.

Normal flows here

The Tallulah River runs a median of 71 cfs at this gauge across 11 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 103 cfs, and October the leanest at 43 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 5,430 cfs in 2019, and the lowest is 21 cfs in 2024.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2015 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.