A New Tunnel Under Lake Mead Will Drain Even More Water Out The Reservoir

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Exactly. How can they possibly think this could help?

Knocking down the dam and allowing the river to flow naturally would be a better answer. If the farmers can't grow crops in a fuckin desert, they need to move where they can.

How deep is lake Meade right now?

Yep. This is unfortunate. I visit the Hoover Dam every year and the water level is just pathetic. It won't last much longer.

I think less than 100 feet? I'm not sure thought. But it's at 38% of capacity.

High water 1,229 feet, Dead Pool 895 feet, water level at press time 1,096 feet from the pop science magazine I have. it contains 28,945,000 acre feet of water. June 2014 issue.

What is Acre-Feet? We have a reservoir nearly dry here at 256 Acre-Feet.

An acre-foot is the amount of water required to cover one acre to a depth of one foot

So can we tell how many feet deep this 256 Acre-Feet of water in my local Reservoir is?

[link to www.nebraskaweatherphotos.org]

What is the lake's elevation at high-water?
The high-water line is at 1,229 feet above sea level. At this elevation, the water would be more than 7 1/2 feet over the top of the raised spillway gates, which are at elevation 1,221.4 feet. All lands below elevation 1,250 have been retained for reservoir operations purposes.

What is the reservoir's area?
At elevation 1,221.4 feet the reservoir covers about 158,500 acres or 248 square miles.


How long and wide is the reservoir?
At elevation 1,221.4 feet, Lake Mead extends approximately 110 miles upstream toward the Grand Canyon. It also extends about 35 miles up the Virgin River. The width varies from several hundred feet in the canyons to a maximum of eight miles.

How much water will Lake Mead hold?
Approximately 28,945,000 acre-feet. An acre-foot is the amount of water required to cover one acre to a depth of one foot, or approximately 326,000 gallons. The reservoir will store the entire average flow of the Colorado River for two years. That is enough water to cover the State of Pennsylvania to a depth of one foot.

It is actually at 1081 ft.

And the third straw won't be complete until next summer.

It looks bad.

very bad.

10 feet drop in one month.

the last thing you want to do is drain that lake. the bodies, boats, trash and devastated rock would take billions to clean up.

once you build these dams, you pretty much dont go back.

No....15 feet.

Damn.

I remember seeing old photos and hearing stories of catfish the size of a vw bug behind the dam when I was little. I think they may have founf human remains in one. I wonder how many of those big bastards are doing in the shallow waters now.