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  • A truck passes through Mill Creek where it overflowed the banks onto Old Federal Road North in Eton on Monday afternoon. The risk of flooding will continue today and through Wednesday morning, according to the National Weather Service. (Misty Watson/The Daily Citizen)

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  • Mill Creek in Eton spills into a yard on Third Avenue Monday afternoon. (Misty Watson/The Daily Citizen)

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  • A sign warns drivers that Mill Creek has overflowed its banks onto Old Federal Road North in Eton on Monday. (Misty Watson/The Daily Citizen)

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  • The water levels rise on First Avenue in Chatsworth Monday afternoon. Another half to three-quarters of an inch of rain is possible today, according to the National Weather Service’s seven-day forecast. (Misty Watson/The Daily Citizen)

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January 15, 2013

Rain, rain not going away

Residents watch as water rises

Rachel Brown rachelbrown@daltoncitizen.com

ETON — Red Watson’s mobile home near Old Federal Road was still comfortably distant from the rising waters of Mill Creek Monday afternoon, but he remembers a time only a few years ago when rescue workers took him out in a boat.

For now though, he’s fine, but a few other residents in the area were already seeing their yards begin to flood up to their homes. Watson was among many area residents whose homes are situated near swelling creeks and streams or the Conasauga River watching the area rains.

Only Norton Bridge Road in Murray County was closed near the Whitfield County line due to flooding on Monday, emergency operators said. The National Weather Service issued a flood warning Monday for the Conasauga River area near Eton and in Tilton and for the Coahulla Creek area near Keith’s Mill in Whitfield County where the creek had already reached flood level of 16 feet as of 2 p.m.

According to the NWS, the risk of flooding will continue today and through Wednesday morning, diminishing at some point Wednesday but picking up again Thursday.

“This could produce additional flooding to parts of North Georgia Thursday,” the flood warning from the NWS stated. “Total rainfall amounts by Friday morning could reach three to four inches across North Georgia with lesser amounts to the south.”

Another half to three-quarters of an inch of rain is possible today, according to the NWS’s seven-day forecast.

Whitfield County emergency management director Claude Craig said workers were set to monitor the areas that normally flood Monday night, but as of about 5:30 p.m. Monday there were no road closings to report.

“The river gauges are getting close, but most of the water that is in the roadways (is) from rain and nothing from any of our creeks, streams or rivers,” Craig said.

Murray County emergency management director Dwayne Bain said Monday “there is some localized flooding but nothing major.”

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