Flood Warning For Sweetwater Creek

The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a Flood Warning for The Sweetwater Creek near Lilburn.

Minor flooding is forecast through Monday evening. At 8:15 a.m. the stage was 10.1 feet and rising. Flood stage is 11 feet.

The creek is forecast to rise above flood stage this morning and continue rising, according to the NWS, reaching near 11.7 feet Monday afternoon.

“Minor flooding will occur in portions of the Northwood Country Club Golf Course upstream from the gage on Club Drive, and in the wooded areas downstream from the gage and for the next four miles until the creek merges with the Yellow River,” according to the NWS.

An old concrete golf cart bridge around 300 feet downstream from the gage will begin to flood.