re: #218 wrenchwench

Does that mean things are looking better for that big reservoir behind Hoover Dam?

I saw something last week from (I want to say) Lake Powell, telling people not to camp within 300 feet of the shoreline because the water has been steadily rising and they might get flooded out. From last week:

Snowmelt from the Rocky Mountains has been pouring into Lake Powell since weather began to warm up. The lake is rising six to 15 inches each day, and according to Greg Smith, senior hydrologist at Colorado Basin River Forecast Center, this is an immense improvement from 2018.

“So if you look at 2018, the volume of water that came into Lake Powell during the April dry period was 2.6 million acre feet. And this year, we’re forecasting 10.1 million acre feet. So you can see I mean, it’s it’s it’s quite a, you know, huge increase from what we saw last year,” Smith said.

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