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At the TVA summertime water level target "full pool", the lake surface covers 6,430 acres (26 km²) and the estimated depth of Watauga Lake is 265 feet (81 m) at the dam. At full pool, Watauga's elevation is the highest of all TVA lakes at 1,959 feet (597 m) above sea level.
Drone footage shot by storm chaser Brandon Clement showed the improvement in water level and snowpack in places such as Folson Lake, Lake Oroville and Donner Pass, since last summer.
Watauga Dam is located 37 miles (60 km) above the mouth of the Watauga, at a point where the westward-flowing river veers north to slice a water gap through the middle of Iron Mountain. The dam is about 5 miles (8.0 km) downstream from Butler, Tennessee , and 10 miles (16 km) upstream from Elizabethton.
This is a list of the largest reservoirs, or man-made lakes, in the U.S. state of California. All fifty-three reservoirs that contain over 100,000 acre-feet (0.12 km 3) of water at maximum capacity are listed. This includes those formed by raising the level of natural lakes, such as at Lake Tahoe.
Nearly 3 miles below Watauga Dam, on the Horseshoe section of the Watauga River, is the TVA Wilbur Dam, which forms a much smaller but very deep reservoir known as Wilbur Lake. TVA releases approximately 130 cubic feet per second (3.7 m 3 /s) of discharged water back into the Watauga River during the summer months. [6]
At the lake's peak level, the spillway can drain 48,400 cubic feet per second (1,370 m 3 /s), which occurs when the lake level rises to 15.5 feet (4.7 m) above the level of the funnel. Water spills over its lip when the lake reaches 1,602,000 acre-feet (1.976 km 3 ) and a reservoir elevation of 440 feet (130 m) above sea level.
When full, the reservoir covers 1,234 acres (4.99 km 2), has a maximum water depth of 115 feet (35 m), and a shoreline of 27 miles (43 km). [1] Lake Hodges is owned by the City of San Diego and supplies water to the San Dieguito Water District and Santa Fe Irrigation District. Lake Hodges has a total capacity of 30,251 acre-feet of water. [2]
The month showing the lowest water level was August, 2015 with the water volume in the reservoir decreasing to 81,940 AF, approximately 19.6% of the reservoirs maximum capacity. [7] Water levels have been increasing through the winter months of 2015-2016 reaching 240,340 AF during April, 2016. [7]