Wildcat Creek near Lawrenceville, 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 02205000 sits on Wildcat Creek and reads everything draining 1.3 square miles of the Upper Ocmulgee basin. Its datum sits 967 feet above sea level NAVD88. Daily flow is on record here from 1954 to 1982, 29 years in all.

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 near Luxomni, GA at 124 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 1% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Yellow River near Snellville, GA, Yellow River at GA 124, near Lithonia, GA and Yellow River at Pleasant Hill Road, near Lithonia,ga.

Normal flows here

Wildcat Creek runs a median of 0.8 cfs at this gauge across 29 years of record. March is the fullest month at a median 2.1 cfs, and September the leanest at 0.3 cfs. The highest daily mean on record is 150 cfs in 1980, and the lowest is 0.0 cfs in 1981.

Medians from the USGS daily-statistics record, 1954 to 1982. A month at 100% is running at its own long-term median. USGS stopped publishing a daily flow record at this gauge, so these are historical norms, not a baseline for current readings.

Flood stages and record crests

The highest crest on record is 10.1 feet, in September 2009.

Flood categories and crest history from the NOAA National Water Prediction Service, gauge WLDG1. Stages are gage height, not depth. Not for navigation.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Buford Dam is 12 miles from this gauge. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• Buford Dam 12 miles
• Morgan Falls Dam 22 miles