Hydrologists said in December that Lake Powell’s runoff would be 92% of average. In January, the forecast dropped to 81%, ...

LAKE POWELL — Federal water managers say ... that 1.3 million acre-feet worth of water will flow toward Lake Powell over the next few months, 177% of the average. Lake Mead, located downstream ...

"Lake Powell does not get a lot of inflow over the winter while much of the snow remains frozen on the mountaintops, but it continues to release water downstream. Since January 1, the water in ...

Lake Powell’s levels have fallen throughout the winter, but as the weather warms, the snowpack that has accumulated in the mountains over the winter will begin to melt. That water will feed ...

Authorities predict that Lake Powell will end 2023 at 3,573 above sea level, which is a clear improvement over the past several years. Last year it ended the year at 3,524 feet. Lake Mead ended ...

Weeks after the surface of Lake Powell sunk to an all-time low, the key Colorado River reservoir is rising more than a foot a day — on track to deepen by some 70 feet in the coming months.

Flaming Gorge is about seven times smaller than Lake Powell in terms of capacity, but right now Powell is holding just over twice as much water.

This year’s predicted spring runoff into Lake Powell has decreased yet again as ... That’s lower than the runoff in 2022, which was a little over 3.7 million acre-feet, but better than 2021 ...

Stepped-up water conservation and a run of wet weather have raised Lake Powell to its highest level in well over three years. That has happened even though this year’s runoff into the lake will ...

Lake Powell sits behind the Colorado River’s Glen Canyon Dam on the border between Utah and Arizona. The Colorado River provides drinking water to nearly 40 million people, and irrigates over ...

Visitors can see such a large ring because the water levels in Lake Powell and Lake Mead have declined over the past two decades, reaching historic lows in the early 2020s. Experts attribute this ...