Winter Storm Warnings are in effect for elevations above 4000.Heavy accumulations of 10-20 are forecast above 6000, 3-8 to 4500 and several inches to valley floors. google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; Lund said he expects water use in the basin to have "capped out," but the reservoir can't continue to supply water at the pace in which the area consumes it. The Colorado River flows in from the east around Mille Crag Bend and is swallowed by the lake. //-->, Printable Version Hydrologists recently updated the model that forecasts the level of Lake Powell. The bureau, in consultation with tribal nations and the seven Colorado River Basin states, decided to keep nearly 500,000 acre-feet of water in Lake Powell that had originally been planned to be released to the Lower Basin states of Nevada, Arizona and California this year. Differences between the full period forecasts and the residual forecasts may not exactly equal the actual observed volumes due to rounding conventions (see Definitions section). The lake is set to reach. But in a statement, she said, The Upper Basin States are working collaboratively with the Bureau of Reclamation to draft a 2022 Drought Response Operations Plan outlining potential releases from Upper Basin reservoirs in an effort to protect critical elevations at Lake Powell. google_ad_client = "pub-0146338466817273"; Lake Powells side branches had all retreated compared to the previous years extents. The forecast is changing daily and there are still a lot of variables, said Lisa Meiman, a spokeswoman for WAPA. The lake level began to rebound; only the 2008 image appeared to deviate from the trend toward rising water levels. She grew up in Tucson, Arizona, where she fell in love with the ecology and geology of the Sonoran desert. Lake Powell is so low that it is nearing a dead pool, in which water levels aren't high enough to deliver water downstream. Lake Powell has several launch ramps along its 186-mile length. To view the current inflow forecast relative to past inflows, click on Lake Powell Inflow Forecast. Lake Powell is now at a historic low. hbbd``b`$WX)! As of September 20, 2021, the water elevation at Glen Canyon Dam was 3,546.93 feet, more than 153 feet below "full pool" (elevation 3,700 feet). Credit: Alex Hager. Lake Powell