Extremely heavy snowpack is helping to recharge Lake Powell and Lake Mead in the Colorado River Basin. Snow melt runoff into #LakePowell could reach 177% of average this year, which is desperately needed as the reservoir had fallen to a historic low.
#ColoradoRiver
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/04/29/lake-powell-lake-mead-water-levels-going-up-how-high-they-go/11736349002/?mc_cid=b1a1785569&mc_eid=09d267fb36

Water releases from Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Utah are being suspended as requested by four upper #ColoradoRiver Basin states. The #water was to boost the level of #LakePowell, which recently fell to its lowest level since it filled in the 1960s. Above-normal snowpack and precipitation in the West will also help refill Lake Powell.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/us/lake-powell-flaming-gorge-water-release-climate/index.html

Upper Colorado River Basin states are asking the Bureau of Reclamation to suspend water releases from Flaming Gorge Reservoir to allow heavy snowpack to raise the level of the reservoir rather than continuing to send water downstream to Lake Powell. Snowmelt will soon help raise the level of #LakePowell, too.
#water #ColoradoRiver #drought
https://www.kunc.org/environment/2023-02-27/upper-basin-states-want-to-pause-some-releases-from-a-major-colorado-river-reservoir

https://news.yahoo.com/water-crisis-west-massive-reservoir-100009040.html

#LakePowell is the nation's second-largest reservoir. Water is dangerously close to dropping so low that it can't flow out of the reservoir Lake Powell, the nation's second-largest reservoir and one that provides water and power to millions of people in southern CA has reached its lowest levels since its first filling in the 1960s.
Its companion reservoir #LakeMead is at levels almost as low #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #WaterCrisis #ClimateCrisis #Environment

Lake Powell dropped to a new low of 3,522.16 feet today.
The previous low of 3,522.24 feet occurred on April 22, 2022.
#ColoradoRiver #LakePowell #drought
https://www.usbr.gov/uc/water/hydrodata/reservoir_data/919/dashboard.html#pool_elevation

These important #water sources have been depleted #LakeMead #LakePowell #drought

https://newstarget.com/2023-02-07-dying-west-lakes-mead-powell-might-not-refill.html

These important #water sources have been depleted

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-02-07-dying-west-lakes-mead-powell-might-not-refill.html

#LakeMead #LakePowell #drought

As the Colorado River Shrinks, Washington Prepares to Spread the Pain https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/climate/colorado-river-biden-cuts.html #UnitedStatesPoliticsandGovernment #RationingandAllocationofResources #AgricultureandFarming #LakePowell(Utah-Ariz) #ImperialValley(Calif) #BureauofReclamation #InteriorDepartment #NativeAmericans #ColoradoRiver #GlobalWarming #California #NewMexico #LakeMead #Colorado #Drought #Arizona #Wyoming #Nevada #Water #Utah

#LakePowell elevation from the Bureau of Reclamation. The graph shows Powell to be at 3,524.86 feet on Dec. 28.
#CORiver #ColoradoRiver
https://www.usbr.gov/uc/water/hydrodata/reservoir_data/919/dashboard.html#pool_elevation/

Lake Powell has fallen below its target elevation of 3,525 feet to one of its lowest recorded levels since it began filling in the 1960s. #LakePowell was at 3,524.98 feet on Dec. 27, per Bureau of Reclamation CSV data.
#CORiver #Colorado River
https://aspenjournalism.org/data-dashboard-lake-powell-about-to-reach-critical-level/

The possibility exists that water could stop flowing through Hoover Dam at Lake Mead in two years as it and Glen Canyon Dam at Lake Powell are both about three-fourths empty.
If that happened, water would not flow from Hoover Dam to California, Arizona & Mexico.
#drought #ColoradoRiver #LakePowell #LakeMead
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2022-12-16/risk-of-dead-pool-looms-at-colorado-river-meeting

The possibility exists that water could stop flowing past Hoover Dam at Lake Mead in two years as it and Glen Canyon Dam at Lake Powell are both about three-fourths empty.
If that happened, water would not flow from Hoover Dam to California, Arizona & Mexico.
#drought #ColoradoRiver #LakePowell #LakeMead
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2022-12-16/risk-of-dead-pool-looms-at-colorado-river-meeting

Water releases from the Glen Canyon Dam were reduced to help protect water levels at Lake Powell. The aim is to hold back 523,000 acre-feet of water in the Colorado River reservoir through April 2023 and send it to Lake Mead over the summer.
#drought #ColoradoRiver #LakePowell #LakeMead #water
https://www.abc4.com/news/local-news/bureau-of-reclamation-to-hold-back-water-in-lake-powell/?mc_cid=e634b727a1&mc_eid=09d267fb36

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation forecasts that Lake Powell could fall to “minimum power pool” as soon as July 2023. If Powell were to drop to “dead pool,” only small amounts of water could pass through the dam. Lake Powell is less than a quarter full.
#LakePowell #ColoradoRiver #drought #water
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/12/01/drought-colorado-river-lake-powell/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/12/01/drought-colorado-river-lake-powell/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3876103%2F6388e0e13564ae5f752bf09f%2F59736af1ae7e8a1cf4ba13db%2F27%2F72%2F6388e0e13564ae5f752bf09f&wp_cu=9826f176f3367712a45b334c3bf4b17b%7C2F740B3173518C7BE050007F01006B97
#wow!
#drought #ColoradoRiver #LakePowell #climatedisaster

@dbfulton So sad to see this decline in water levels at #LakePowell. I was there a few months ago and noticed the old boat ramp that was once used shortly after the dam was built and the lake was filling, was back in operation.

RT @SimonettaCheli: The very critic situation of #LakePowell as seen from the @CopernicusEU #Sentinel2 mission (comparison 2018 vs 2022).
If Lake Powell drops even more, it could soon hit a ‘deadpool’ where water will likely fail to flow through the dam and onto Lake Mead.
➡️https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-2/Dwindling_water_levels_of_Lake_Powell_seen_from_space

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/CopernicusEU/status/1563568095704203265

#GlenCanyonDam close to shutting down as #LakePowell water levels continue to drop due to ongoing #drought #watershortage

https://newstarget.com/2022-07-18-glen-canyon-dam-close-to-shutting-down.html

#GlenCanyonDam close to shutting down as #LakePowell water levels continue to drop due to ongoing #drought #watershortage

https://newstarget.com/2022-07-18-glen-canyon-dam-close-to-shutting-down.html

#GlenCanyonDam close to shutting down as #LakePowell water levels continue to drop due to ongoing #drought

https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-07-18-glen-canyon-dam-close-to-shutting-down.html

#watershortage