Thursday Top of the Scroll: Lake Mead’s water level increase could continue through May with additional Lake Powell water being released
Encouraging news continues to flow about water levels at Lake Mead. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has announced that increased releases from Lake Powell will continue through the end of May. Water released through the Glen Canyon Dam at Lake Powell flows south as the Colorado River into the Grand Canyon and eventually into Lake Mead. The majority of the water in the Colorado River basin comes from melting snow in the Colorado Rockies, which had record snowfall this year. Reclamation says it will release almost twice as much water this month than it did prior to the recent high flow experiment (HFE) that helped Lake Mead rise more than two feet in a week.
Related articles:
- KTLA – Los Angeles: Lake Mead’s water level continues to rise at the expense of Lake Powell
- KDVR – Denver: Snow melt causing flood concerns in northwest Colorado
- NBC 11 – Grand Junction, CO: Colorado River hazardous due to heavy snowmelt