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Lake Mead can store more than 27 million acre-feet of water, and Lake Powell 25 million acre-feet. By contrast, Shasta Lake can hold about 4.6 million acre-feet, and Lake Oroville 3.5 million acre ...
Signs indicate that a boat ramp is closed due to low water levels in Lake Mead near Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 10, 2021, where the water level has fallen to its lowest since the reservoir was ...
Located on the Utah-Arizona border, Lake Powell is currently at an all-time low surface elevation of 3,522 feet since it was filled in the 1960s -- holding less than one-fourth of its full capacity.
Spring ended with a sudden influx of warm weather and then rain. The combination of rain and snowmelt eventually produced a combined inflow into Lake Powell of over 111,500 cubic feet (3,160 m 3) per second. [11] The average annual peak flow prior to 1963 was 93,400 cubic feet (2,640 m 3) per second. [12]
The Washington County Water Conservancy District has proposed building the Lake Powell Pipeline, which would have the capacity to extract up to 83,756 acre-feet (103,312,000 m 3) per year from Lake Powell for distribution to municipal drinking water systems in the county.
While the dam is located near Page in northern Arizona, the majority of Lake Powell resides in southern Utah. With a total storage capacity of 27,000,000 acre-feet (33 km 3) of water in Lake Powell, the Glen Canyon Unit accounts for over 64% of the system's overall water storage capacity. The 1,296 megawatt capacity of the dam's hydroelectric ...
Lake Powell's fall to below 3,525 feet (1,075 meters) puts it at its lowest level since the lake filled after the federal government dammed the Colorado River at Glen Canyon more than a half ...
English: Map of Lake Powell, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, and surrounding country in Arizona and Utah. Date: 29 September 2008: Source: