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Just saw on the news that Lake Mead is at the lowest level it has been in 75 years... SCARY!! They also said that if it drops 8 more feet.. a shortage will be declared and rationing will go into effect for both Nevada and Arizona.
The report also mentioned The BoR is planning on equalizing the level of Mead and Powell.
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We all called it. They always wait til the S*** hits the fan before they will do something...Now if they even Powell and Mead out, How much do you guys think the level of Mead will raise?
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Yes, we did call it, huh...
I dont know how much water Powell could give us, but I know that the fishing will be sick shortly there-after!!
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8 feet is nothing too, lake mead can go up and down that much in a weekend. scary. they call them 7 year droughts, but this one seams to be going forever. hope nobody in colorado heres this, but i hope they get the most snow they ever had this winter. maybe next year too.
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Yeah. 7 years my a%&. Going on 11, with no reprieve in sight...
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Looks like October is the start of their fiscal year.
The site shows Lake Powell at 63%
[url "http://graphs.water-data.com/lakemead/"][/url]http://graphs.water-data.com/lakemead/[/url]
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When will it stop[mad] I still dont understand why we funnel water to mexico. Would be nice if they could get it up to a 60% capacity. And if they do equalize powell and mead hopefully it will show a dif.[unimpressed]
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i know right? why mexico? i still can't believe that boulder harbor is gone i was just there last march and it was full, but everytime we went it was lower and lower, now its just a weedy mud hole with a sunken pontoon, some tractor tires, and cement blocks
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Soon it will look like this.....................[inline lowtide.jpg]
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i found this while surfing the web don't really know how to read it but it seems bad.
[url "http://www.lakemead.water-data.com/"]http://www.lakemead.water-data.com/[/url]
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This is what happens when you base your water allotment to California, Arizona, Mexico, and Nevada off of 1200 year highs for the Colorado River and then add millions of people downstream. Arizona finally started taking its full allotment sometime around 2000. I'm guessing that if we look at the water level history of Mead we'll find that it started really dropping around then. I'm not denying a drought, just that the drought has been over for a few years now. Water flow into the Colorado River system is near normal but outflow is still way above inflow.
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Lake Mead Water Levels — Historical and Current[inline image.png]
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[center]Vertical Axis Units: Feet above Mean Sea Level
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Does anyone know how low the lake has to get before it stops producing power at hoover?thanks[cool]
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cool my graph updates itself didn't know that i posted it on the 31st and its got a new reading from nov 4th,
4pound, im not sure how low it has to be, but its getting close i reckon.
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to see. i was born and raised in vegas, and like most NBV's (natural born vegans) i have great memories as a kid being at that lake when water levels were alot better off. pretty bad when the shores i used to fish on are now cliffs. /sigh