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I was on the north shore this past March and yes it was bad. I’m sure it’s even worse now
WT actual F?
28.5% of capacity?
Damn.
Powell and mead are fucked.
Wow. Check out this graphic yikes
Lake Mead Water Level
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De salenazation ( sp ) from tbe West !?
I wonder if the 33 data centers in Las Vegas have anything to do with this?
Southern Nevada data centers used a ton of water in 2024. Here’s how
Its like 2nd generation Mayflower..
We rolled right over the Indians...
" Suck it "... Zero say in the matter
Fast forward, Data centers
" Suck it "....Zero say in the matter
They certainly can’t be helping but the warnings of this have been going on for at least 30 years. It’s similar to the situation of how our politicians look at the national debt. They know it’s getting worse at an astounding rate, but they really just ignore and hope that they suddenly wake up in an alternate reality. Until that happens, they just keep kicking the can down the road and hope that the events that force them to face up to it come after they are gone.
The Colorado river basin is well below snowpack this year. Going to be a long summer for folks in the west I’m afraid. They’re draining 30% of flaming gorge to rescue lake Powell.
First year I can remember mountain biking essentially every weekend above 7000 feet. They were climbing 14ers in hiking boots with minimal spikes in early May.
It's annoying how many problems need to come to a head before people are willing to do something. Not to sidetrack, but we're going to be having those same conversations with social security before too long and it's going to kill people. But, fires in the west, water shortages in the southwest....makes that humidity in the east not seem so bad.
Can’t wait until data centers are constructed nearby!
We are reactive not proactive.
Don't worry, they probably saved the Moogamboo Killer Mosquito from extinction by not making sure our reservoirs are supplied.
The vertical axis doesn't start at 0, which makes it misleading, it's only down 1.6% in 2 years...
Do you have a graph showing how much is down over the last 10, 15, 20 years?
Lake Powell was somewhere around 30’ rom dead pool this spring.
Same thing happened with beetle kill forests. We all saw the train wreck happening right in front of us. The feds just sat back and said climate change, nothing we can do about it. No mention of years of fire suppression and logging bans. Regardless of cause, we could have saved some rain forests by actually using the dead timber.
We used to live in the forest and I was a tree killin' slash burnin' mf'er! But yeah I'd be walking around the property and hear them chewing on trees and see sap dripping out of their little boreholes. I hate them. And they're terrible at flying, so they'd just smack into things or into you. I'm happy to say I stomped on every one I could find.
we spend about 3 total weeks on Flaming Gorge per summer for the last 15 years. our first trip is in a couple weeks. i'm really nervous about what we are going to be getting into, beautiful reservoir.
Pit Row
If you graph the last 90 years, with the vertical axis starting at zero, it doesn't look bad...
https://lakemead.water-data.com/index2_old.php
Even that isn’t really a good representation of the the historical record. The lake wasn’t truly formed until it filled for the first time in something like ‘41 or ‘42. That should probably be its ‘zero line’ with positive numbers above that on the y axis and negative numbers below that. I think that the original fill level was somewhere close to 1210, so that would be reasonable to set as ‘zero’.
Yup!
The graph I posted show the lake filling up to 1942.
Maximum recorded level was 1225.83 in 1983, current level is 85.6% of the maximum recorded level, nothing to panic about.
No, it’s useless as a reservoir long before it is ‘empty’. But zero should be your starting point with the measurement being how much higher or lower you are than that measurement.
The number you are using is elevation, not lake depth. If all the water were to disappear tomorrow, using your measurement the lake would still be at 697 feet.
Volume would be the best measurement...
That’s probably the best interpretation, actually.
That shows that it’s lost about 2/3 of its volume in the last 25 years or so.
It's down 17' in two years. How did you figure that was 1.6 % ?
1049.02 / 1066.36 = 0.984
(1 - 0.984) x 100 = 1.6%
Even if you want to use ft, you’d have to subtract 697 from both of those heights.
If full pool is 1229 and dead pool is 895 then it holds 334 ft of usable water. A 17.34 ft drop of 334 ft is more like 5.19%. Of course that is elevation, not acre feet of water. Acre feet is how most lakes are measured.
Turbines wont be touching water soon....
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