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Lake Mead is a reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in the Southwestern ... (366 to 331 m). During the filling of Lake Powell from 1963 to ...
This resulted in Lake Mead declining to the lowest level on record since the 1930s. Long-term water level decline continued, forcing an emergency release of water from the Flaming Gorge Reservoir in July 2021. [10] and by April 22, 2022, Lake Powell was at 3,522.24 feet (1,073.58 m) in elevation – just 22.88% of capacity. This marks the ...
Lake Powell, impounded by Glen Canyon Dam, is the second-largest reservoir in the U.S. This is a list of largest reservoirs in the United States , including all artificial lakes with a capacity greater than or equal to 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3 ).
Bartlett Lake: 176,186 acre.ft (217,318 dam 3) N/A N/A [45] Coolidge Dam AZ: Gila: BIA: Flood control Irrigation 1930 San Carlos Lake: 910,000 acre.ft (1,122,400 dam 3) N/A N/A [46] Horse Mesa Dam AZ: Salt: USBR: Hydropower Regulation 1927 Apache Lake: 245,138 acre.ft (302,367 dam 3) 129: 126,900 [n 7] [48] Horseshoe Dam AZ: Verde: USBR: Flood ...
Lake Powell: Arizona–Utah: 251 sq mi 650 km 2: man-made 25 Kentucky Lake: Kentucky–Tennessee: 250 sq mi 647 km 2: man-made 26 Lake Mead:
Lake Mead, formed by the 726-foot (221 m)-high Hoover Dam about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, is the largest reservoir in the United States with a full capacity of 28,945,000 acre-feet (35.703 km 3) and a water surface of nearly 250 square miles (650 km 2). However, the lake has not been full for many years due to a ...
In 2014, the Bureau of Reclamation cut releases from Lake Powell by 10 percent —the first such reduction since the 1960s, when Lake Powell was being filled for the first time. [278] This resulted in Lake Mead dropping to its lowest recorded level since 1937, when it was first being filled. [279]
Name Location Volume Maximum Depth notes 1: Lake Superior: Michigan - Minnesota - Ontario - Wisconsin: 9,799,680,000 acre⋅ft (12,088 km 3) 1,332 ft (406 m) Third-largest fresh-water lake in the world by volume