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Its the highest now than its been in two years at this time i'll take!!!
 
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Your stories about the Nevada Water Authority are nothing but bullshit. The reason the water level has dropped is because of a two decade long drought, not some secret plan a guy at the boat ramp told you about. Perhaps you've noticed the water level at Powell has also declined during this period. What's your secret story behind that?

This is what NOAA has to say about it:

The decade-long drought in the West has had a severe impact on the water level of Lake Mead. By the end of October 2010, data from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation indicated that the level of Lake Mead had dropped to 1082.36 feet, which is the lowest level since the lake was filled in the 1930s. The previous lowest level was 1083.57 feet, reached in March 1956 during the peak of the 1950s drought. This has serious implications for water supplies in Arizona and Nevada.

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring-references/dyk/colorado-basin-drought

An article in last week's R-J discusses the outlook for the near future:

The outlook for Lake Mead continues to improve, as federal forecasters factor in the benefits from an unusually wet winter and a new interstate drought deal that will leave more water in the reservoir.

Instead of the familiar declines of recent decades, the lake east of Las Vegas now is expected to finish the year slightly higher than it is now, according to the latest estimates from the Bureau of Reclamation.

The projected water level of almost 1,086 feet above sea level by the end of December is about a foot higher than hydrologists were predicting a month ago.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/local...ighten-as-water-cuts-are-modeled-1690850/amp/
 
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2FORCEFULL said:






anyone else see that when I said it was gonna drop... it did..and dropped to where I said...and now it stabled at the level they said.....
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It will never be the same, you're 100% right about that. Kind of funny that living in Las Vegas we account for so little of the water, but held extremely accountable for it. We're just a storage facility for commifornia...

Funny story...When my grandparents passed away they were still on a Well (east side Las Vegas). At some point wells were pretty much a huge no go, and my grandpa was forced into tying into the water and sewer system, so he complied. Then they jacked his rates up sky high. He basically said "FUCK YOU" and went back to his well.

The water district was at his house everyday checking his meter to see if he has somehow tapped it. They basically harrassed him to no end.

Long story not so short, when grandma and grandpa passed 5 weeks apart I was cleaning up the estate. The well that had been there since 1964 and needed some parts. So I went to a well supplier for some parts and got some unasked education about our current water situation in Las Vegas.

I learned that the water table has risen significantly because wells are pretty much banned, also near Apex they have found the biggest aquaphor that will never be tapped.

However the water from Lake Mead will constantly pass through, and somehow Las Vegas residents will be held accountable.

Vegas native and also a lot of my family. There is a political agenda behind this, but I didn't want to go there...

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Aw Jeez, not this shit again!.jpg
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another funny thing,.... during all this drought. you would think that water levels down river would be affected , but no... water level up the sea wall in havasu, barrels under water at priates...and the real funny thing,... the river for the first time in years and years makes it all the way to the gulf...… it was just a crick before they started releasing water...
 
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I remember as a kid crusing the lake on a 18ft Sea Ray and the white line was like 5 feet tall...

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this was morelos dam, before the so called drought..... they now release 100,000 acre ft of water..
 
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he Mexicans living along the dry bed of the Colorado River near its delta on the Sea of Cortez are seeing something unusual: agua.

A release of water from a dam at the US-Mexico border means that water is flowing again toward the parched delta of the shared river on Mexico's Sea of Cortez, and it is bringing joy. Water hasn't reached the delta in many years.

The goal of the release of 100,000 acre-feet of water is to restore the Colorado River's flow in Mexico and restore wetlands along the shores of the dry riverbed. Some 300,000 migrating birds once called the delta home.
 
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In building the Glen Canyon and Hoover dams more than half a century ago, the United States started blocking and diverting the Colorado River, eventually siphoning it dry before it could reach its delta. Some 70 percent of its waters go to cropland along its US course. And it slakes the thirst of 30 million people in seven US states and parts of northwest Mexico.

The release of the water this week came when authorities opened the gates on the Morelos Dam, which sits between Yuma, Ariz., and Los Algodones, Mexico.
Authorities are releasing the water in pulses to simulate spring floods from snowmelt in the Rocky Mountains. Some 130 million cubic meters of water will be released over 57 days through May 18, the Secretariat of Foreign Relations said Friday.

The water for the pulse isn't coming at the expense of US consumers and farmers.

It's water from Lake Mead that Mexico banked there as part of its own allotment. According to this Outside Magazine online article, the water being restored to Mexico is less than 1 percent of the river's average annual flow.
 
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I prefer salt water now a days...keep Mead great however
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rivermobster said:
Nope. A tri-toon. But...

I know where there is one for sale in Vegas. It's old and needs work, but I know you like projects. PM me if interested.

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Oh, and no more projects for me... when I get these two tri toons done...
 
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Whether there is a conspiracy or not the one factor that still exists that could fill or significantly raise both Mead and Powell again is mother nature. An extreme weather event like was seen the Spring of 1983 could send water levels climbing rapidly in both reservoirs that no human or conspiracy could stop from happening. In 1983 a heavy Rocky Mountain snow pack combined with warm Springs storms caused accelerated runoff which caused the inflows into Powell to exceed the outflow at the Glenn Canyon Dam and both lakes filled uncontrollably for months. There is nothing to say a weather event like '83 or bigger could't happen in the future. The 'They" said that the weather event of '83 was small in comparison to previous flooding that occurred on the Colorado prior to the dams being built.
 
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2FORCEFULL said:
another funny thing,.... during all this drought. you would think that water levels down river would be affected , but no... water level up the sea wall in havasu, barrels under water at priates....
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Havasu is a constant level lake, Einstein. The elevation rarely varies outside 445 and 449 feet above sea level because it feeds the aquaduct.

The pulse flow into Mexico is a result of Mexico's one time storage of capacity in Lake Mead to provide the water for flushing the delta into the Sea of Cortez.

The more you post, the more obvious it is you don't have the slightest clue about the Colorado River Compact. It's been in existence for 97 years, and it allocates every bit of the river's water to the users per the agreement.

Lake Havasu will remain at normal water levels during the next six and a half weeks as the Minute 3:19 Pulse Flow brings water to the once-parched Colorado River Delta in Mexico, according to Bureau of Reclamation Water Resources Specialist Aaron Marshall.

Marshall said normal water levels at Lake Havasu approximately range between 445 feet and 449 feet above sea level. As of Thursday, the lake’s water level was at about 447.5 feet, which is about a foot less than a week ago.

“Fluctuations of a few feet are normal for our operations in Lake Havasu,” Marshall said. “The pulse flow will not have any effect on the lake’s elevation changes.”

Doug Hendrix, external communications manager at the Bureau of Reclamation’s Yuma office, said Lake Havasu’s water levels must to stay consistent for the purpose of feeding the Central Arizona Project Aqueduct, which carries water to the Phoenix-Tucson region, and the Colorado River Aqueduct, which carries water to Southern California.

Marshall said a greater amount of water would be passing through Lake Havasu than what is normal, for the duration of the pulse flow.

The Minute 3:19 Pulse Flow is an agreement between U.S. and Mexico and an effort to revive the last 70-mile stretch of the river into the Sea of Cortez.

On March 23, the river’s most southern dam, Mexico’s Morelos Dam near Yuma, began unleashing 15,000 acre feet of water to flood the Mexican delta. The one-time release is expected to last until May 18.

Lake Havasu water level graph:

http://lakehavasu.water-data.com/
 
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