Blog: Not just Mead: Powell will soon drop to the lowest level since filling in the 1960s
While the historic June 15 low for Lake Mead has drawn headlines – “its lowest level on record since the reservoir was filled in the 1930” – we’re about to hit a similar milestone upstream at Lake Powell that has received less attention, but may in fact be more important. It was co-author Eric Kuhn who drew this to my attention – I hadn’t noticed. He notes that sometime around July 24 give or take our eyeballing of the Colorado Basin River Forecasting Center graph, Powell will cross elevation 3,555 feet above sea level. That was the previous post-filling low, on April 8, 2005.
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- Arizona Republic: A new coalition demands end to new Colorado River diversions
- Bloomberg: Opinion - Lake Mead’s water shortage sign of peril for Southwest
- K2 Radio: Governor Gordon convenes working group over drought conditions on Colorado River
- Colorado Sun: Three Colorado River Basin reservoirs will be partially drained to keep Lake Powell producing hydropower
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