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Water Level in Lake Powell, slide show of ten years of images from NASA's Landsat 5 satellite, showing dramatic fluctuations in water levels in Lake Powell. Lake Powell Water Database – water level, basin snowpack, and other statistics; Lake Powell Resorts and Marinas; Friends of Lake Powell – organization opposed to decommissioning Glen ...
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 ).
Scale depiction of the 15 largest lakes in the US. The following is a list of the 100 largest lakes of the United States by normal surface area.The top twenty lakes in size are as listed by the National Atlas of the United States, a publication of the United States Department of the Interior.
The 'central bank for Western water' Lake Powell is one reservoir in a complex water system along the Colorado River, which supplies water to 40 million people and provides irrigation for 5.5 ...
Below are the reservoirs (artificial lakes) in the world with a surface area exceeding 500 km 2 (190 sq mi). Reservoirs can be formed conventionally, by damming the outlet of a canyon or valley to form a lake; the largest of this type is Ghana's Lake Volta, with a water surface of 8,500 km 2 (3,300 sq mi).
Lake Mead can store more than 27 million acre-feet of water, and Lake Powell 25 million acre-feet. By contrast, Shasta Lake can hold about 4.6 million acre-feet, and Lake Oroville 3.5 million acre ...
This article lists the largest lakes, natural and man-made, in the United States by volume—the amount of water they contain under normal conditions. Volumes given for lakes shared with Canada and Mexico are for the total volume of the lake.
Lake Powell's fall to below 3,525 feet (1,075 meters) puts it at its lowest level since the lake filled after the federal government dammed the Colorado River at Glen Canyon more than a half ...