Bob Tregilus

Here's a photo of the Lake Fowell side of that damn dam in Page, Arizona, this afternoon. According to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, at "The end of January elevation and storage of Lake Powell were 3,535.02 feet (165.0 feet from full pool) and 6.14 million acre-feet (maf) (26 percent of live capacity), respectively."

Back in the '80s, we all thought it would fill with sediment and become a waterfall--lol--nope.

#Desert #Lake #Dam #Boat #Water #Landscape #Photography #Darktable

Mar 18 at 4:19amWeb
Show threadIan Kluft ✅✈️🎈🌋Mar 18
@elaterite Typo alert... it's Lake Powell, unless you were trying to call it fowl🐦‍⬛-sounding names. 😀 I stopped there on the road trip back from seeing the 2024 total solar eclipse in Texas.
Show threadBob TregilusMar 18
@ikluft Nope, no typo. Lake Fowell, because of the beauty it drown when it began to fill in 1963.
Show threadIan Kluft ✅✈️🎈🌋Mar 18
@elaterite OK, gotcha. I had to take a picture when I went through there for a friend who has that last name. So I knew I had the sign.
Show threadMaria Langer | 📝💎🌵🛥️Mar 18

@elaterite It's the Glen Canyon Dam and those of us who long to go boating on that amazing lake again track the status of the water level. Here's the site I use and the stats are currently heartbreaking.

https://lakepowell.water-data.com/LP_WaterDB_printable.php

I believe it reached max pool in 1983 and they actually had to use the diversion structures. California and Arizona are very thirsty states.