Yellow River near Luxomni, 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 02206400 sits on the Yellow River and reads everything draining 124 square miles of the Upper Ocmulgee basin. Its datum sits 817 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 near Snellville, GA at 136 square miles, so what passes this gauge is about 91% of the water measured there. Water passing here goes on to Yellow River at GA 124, near Lithonia, GA, Yellow River at Pleasant Hill Road, near Lithonia,ga and Yellow River at Milstead, GA.

Dams near this gauge

The Army Corps' Morgan Falls Dam is 18 miles from this gauge. The Corps publishes no release schedule for this project; its last observed release and elevations load below.

• Morgan Falls Dam 18 miles
• Buford Dam 19 miles