Utoy Creek at Great Southwest Pkwy near Atlanta, 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 02336728 sits on Utoy Creek and reads everything draining 34 square miles of the Middle Chattahoochee-Lake Harding basin. Its datum sits 736 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow has been on record here since 2003, 24 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 Fairburn, GA at 2,060 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 2% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Chattahoochee River above Bear Creek, near Rico, GA and Chattahoochee River near Whitesburg, GA.

Normal flows here

Utoy Creek runs a median of 24 cfs at this gauge across 24 years of record. February is the fullest month at a median 36 cfs, and September the leanest at 11 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 2,840 cfs in 2024, and the lowest is 0.5 cfs in 2009.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 2003 to 2026. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median.

Flood stages and record crests

Utoy Creek reaches flood stage at this gauge at 18 feet. NWS starts watching it at 16 feet. The highest crest on record is 27.9 feet, in September 2009.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge UTYG1. 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