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The elevation of the lake is at 4,489 feet (1,368 m) above sea level. If the lake's water level rises above that, the pumps and gates on the Jordan River are left open. Recently the lake has been at a lower level because of a drought. Utah Lake and Utah Valley. The first European to see Utah Lake was Father Silvestre Vélez de Escalante in 1776.
Lake Powell is a water storage facility for the Upper Basin states of the Colorado River Compact (Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico). The Compact specifies that the Upper Basin states are to provide a minimum annual flow of 7,500,000 acre-feet (9.3 km 3) to the Lower Basin states (Arizona, Nevada, and California).
The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere [1] and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world. [2] It lies in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah and has a substantial impact upon the local climate, particularly through lake-effect snow. It is a remnant of Lake Bonneville, a prehistoric body of water ...
Utah water experts say Lake Powell’s levels are dire, despite a recent influx after the Bureau of Reclamation released water from Flaming Gorge.
Scofield Reservoir is a 2,815-acre (11.39 km 2) reservoir impounded by Scofield Dam, in Carbon County, Utah. Located on the Price River, a tributary of the Green River, Scofield Reservoir is adjacent to the northernmost boundary of the Manti–La Sal National Forest. The reservoir sits at an elevation of 7,618 feet (2,322 m), on the northern ...
Near Las Vegas, Lake Mead is now 33% full. Upstream on the Utah-Arizona border, the water level of Lake Powell, the nation’s second-largest reservoir, stands at 38% of capacity.
The Deer Creek Dam and Reservoir hydroelectric facilities are on the Provo River in western Wasatch County, Utah, United States, [1][2] about 16 miles (26 km) northeast of Provo. The dam is a zoned earthfill structure 235 feet (72 m) high with a crest length of 1,304 ft (397 m). The dam contains 2,810,000 cubic yards (2,150,000 m³) of material ...
Causey Dam. Causey is a 142-acre (0.57 km 2) surface area reservoir on the South Fork of the Ogden River. It is a feature of the Weber Basin Project, and lies at an elevation of about 5,700 feet (1,700 m). The reservoir has a maximum depth of 182 feet (55 m) and a mean depth of 65 feet (20 m). [2]