Noonday Creek
Noonday Creek is a 20.2-mile-long (32.5 km)
Noonday is a translation of the native
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Geography
Noonday Creek is a
At the northern end of Cobb County, Noonday Creek picks up outflow from the
.Tributaries
Little Noonday Creek is its only officially-named tributary, flowing north from the northeast corner of Marietta and then northwestward, joining the main creek southwest of Noonday, at
Other inflows include creeks that flow from or through Laura Lake (joining at Chastain Meadows Parkway), Chastain Lakes, Bells Ferry Park (joining north of Rockbridge Road), Barrett Lakes, Ellison Lakes, Bozeman Lake (near Kennesaw State University), and Timber Lake.
Monitoring
There are two
Flooding
Until 2009, the most severe flood known to have occurred on Noonday Creek was in July 2005, when the outer bands of
September 2009 record flooding
In September 2009, an even worse flood occurred due to a stalled weather system, and the
Because of the many closures caused by the creek's inundation, residents of Woodstock and points northward found it took hours to get home, the resulting
Noonday Creek at Shallowford Road crested at 19.66 feet (5.99 m), with a peak flow literally off the chart, extrapolated to be about 10,000 cubic feet (280 m3) per second, compared to an average of 68. This was after receiving at least 17.5 inches (440 mm) of rain in the past week, half of which fell around midday on September 21, at which point it was already at minor flood stage. The Hawkins Store Road gauge peaked at just over 17 feet (5.2 m) before it stopped reporting around 4pm, the same time the creek crested at Shallowford. The spillway of Noonday Creek Structure Number 17 was extensively damaged.[6] Around 362,500 dollars in damage was done to the sewage treatment facility.
Flood control
On Sep 28, 2008, Final Design Place, Specifications, and Geotechnical Report for the Chastain Meadows Regional Stormwater Management Facility was resubmitted to Georgia EPD for approval and construction of the facility was finally completed on July 31, 2011.[7]
Noonday Creek Structure Number 4
Noonday Creek Structure Number 4 is an earthen dam on Noonday Creek.
Noonday Creek Structure Number 9
Noonday Creek Structure number 9, also known as Ellison Lake Dam, is of earthen construction and is used for flood control purposes. Construction was completed in 1955. Its height is 29 feet (8.8 m) with a length of 598 feet (182 m). Maximum discharge is 1,587 cubic feet per second (44.9 m3/s). Its capacity is 284 acre-feet (350,000 m3). Normal storage is 35 acre-feet (43,000 m3). It drains an area of 400 square miles (1,000 km2).
Noonday Creek Structure Number 16
A soccer stadium and passive recreation facilities for Kennesaw State University has been constructed around the dam.[10]
Recreational facilities
Noonday Creek Trail
Because most of the trees have already been removed from along that side of the creek, the
Noonday Creek in history
Civil War
Noonday Creek was an important watercourse during the Battle of Noonday Creek in June and July 1864.[12]
Early uses of waterpower
Noonday Creek furnished water power to mills in the area, including near Woodstock.[13]
Notes
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed April 27, 2011
- ^ "The Names Stayed". Calhoun Times and Gordon County News. August 29, 1990. p. 64. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
- ^ "Lake Latimer Home Owners Association". lakelatimer.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-22.
- ^ Current USGS stage/streamflow at Hawkins Store Road
- ^ Current USGS stage/streamflow/precip at Shallowford Road
- ^ "GEMA report" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
- ^ "Home | Cobb County Georgia".
- ^ "Category I Dams - February 2015" (PDF). epd.georgia.gov. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-09-15.
- ^ "Georgia Safe Dams Program". Archived from the original on 2010-04-10. Retrieved 2017-09-14.
- ^ Final Zoning Analysis
- ^ "Cobb County Government Trail System". Archived from the original on 2009-10-02. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
- ^ Vale, Joseph G. (1886). Minty and the Cavalry: A History of Cavalry Campaigns in the Western Armies.
- ^ "Woodstock". georgia.gov. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05.