anyone know what the water levels look like at powel now? i hope all this rain is making it out there aswell. atleast the snow pack is decent this year.
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anyone know what the water levels look like at powel now? i hope all this rain is making it out there aswell. atleast the snow pack is decent this year.
Right now the water level is down approximately 140 ft. The water level hasn't started coming back up yet due to the fact that the Bureau of Reclaimation is releasing the required down river allotments now until March 31. With these increased releases, the level is dropping about 1/3 of an inch a day.
The good news is that with the snow packs being 140-160% of normal in Western Colorado, the rise is anticipated to be in the neighborhood of 50 feet. Not too bad for a single year.
It doesn't matter what it looks like now it matters what the run off in spring brings. They are estimating a 50'-70' increase this spring so it's a start.
Lake Powell Water Level (http://www.summittech.com/LakePowell/LP_WaterDB.php)
It seems that they are filling lake mead. It has gone up about 4% in the last 3 weeks (approx: 4,000 acre feet). I know that they have let very little water from Davis (average 2000 cfm) because of downstream rain so in turn Hoover has also limited water output. Lake Havasu is 2 feet from max from last weeks report. I think one reason they have let so much water out of Glen Canyon is because it allows a little room for error in the event that snow runoff is higher than expected (another 1983 episode when the river floaded here).
This came up before, the current high releases from Powell are part of a scheduled experimental flow test going on until the first week of April 2005.
Jan-April Exp. Flow Test (http://137.77.133.1/uc/water/crsp/cs/gcd.html)
The January through March high fluctuating releases are intended to benefit the endangered humpback chub. Scientists have recognized that the humpback chub population has been in general decline since high fluctuating flows were curtailed in November of 1991.
Fcuking liberal enviro wackos :burningm: :burningm: :burningm:
Chub??????? :confused: You got to be kidding.....
The January through March high fluctuating releases are intended to benefit the endangered humpback chub. Scientists have recognized that the humpback chub population has been in general decline since high fluctuating flows were curtailed in November of 1991.
Fcuking liberal enviro wackos :burningm: :burningm: :burningm:
My humpback chub comes out in the summer :D :D :D
Mardonzi above is dead on, Powell is down -140 feet due to amount required to be dropped down stream. Mead is up about 12 feet in the last week or so, but is this only a temporary thing? Is the drought over? It took six years to drop to these levels, how fast can it come back. Lets see what the spring melts do for us.
I was at Bullfrog last week and the launching currently looks pretty good. With the warmer weather coming launching will be slow due to a narrow access to the available ramp area.