Water levels in Lake Mead are at their lowest since April 1937, when the reservoir was still being filled for the first time, continuing a 22-year downward trend. Lake Mead was filled to just 27 percent of capacity as of July 18, 2022. As the largest reservoir in the United States, Lake Mead supp
The images above are natural-color images that were acquired by Landsat 7 and Landsat 8 on July 6, 2000, and July 3, 2022. The detailed images in the series below also include a view from Landsat 8 on July 8, 2021 . Light-colored fringes are visible along the shorelines in 2021 and 2022. These are mineralized areas of the lakeshore that were formerly underwater when the reservoir was filled closer to capacity.
30 feet above sea level; the water elevation at the end of July 2000 was 1199.97 feet . Lake levels at the dam shouldAt maximum capacity, Lake Mead would reach an elevation 1,220 feet near the dam and would hold 9.3 trillion gallons of water.
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