Lake Mead rising FAST due to High Flow Release | HELP ON THE WAY from Powell! Water level UPDATE
Welcome back River Watchers! A new "high flow release" experiment is currently underway on the Colorado River, made possible thanks to the bountiful winter we had to start off 2023. We'll take a look at why the USBR is conducting this trial, and what they hope to achieve with it. Stay tuned because more water (and more help) is on the way!!
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Your video complements another lake watching channel Sin City Outdoors. So thanks aplenty!
Glad to hear! We also enjoy the SCO channel and their lake updates👍 They were one of the original ones out there and have definitely motivated us! We have similar hobbies also as you'll see in our "Adventure" episodes. Hope you'll stick around for the next proper "Lake Mead Update" where I list my SuperThanks viewers in the credits. Thank you aplenty also for your kind gift! 😎
I grew up around lake Mead. I remember all the boats and vehicle coming far and wide to see our beautiful lake. My great great grandparents had a house under the lake. The town was called St Thomas. Now you can see part of the town because of the water shortage 😭 I wish I could save lake Mead the next generations in my family and families all over. She was so beautiful especially the wind blowing. Please bring her back
Wow thanks for sharing that story I can only imagine how fun and carefree it was back in the hey day. From what I've seen and heard it seems the late 80's and 90's were the peak of the lake. After that it's been all downhill (both water and visitor wise!) We hiked to St. Thomas recently and it's pretty remote. The water is so low it's entirely exposed but there isn't much left but some foundations. I always try to find the bright side of things, which is, now the park is always almost entirely empty. That leaves much more wilderness and peace and quiet to explore alone with the doggies!😎 Thank you for watching!
What a sight to see standing next to that water! Must be really loud too.
It's like Niagara Falls! You can see those folks clothing blowing around from the force of water 😳
@@mojo.adventures I've never seen anything like it!
20'...WOW...is that great news. Now, we need a concerted effort by California users to conserve. I live in Pasadena, California which is about 12 miles from the heart of Los Angeles. Although a notice from my water company has indicated usage permission on certain days, there is no enforcement, and usage violators are overlooked. One other fix is the transformation of grass lawns and plants to water-resistant drought plants and landscapes, thereby eliminating the need for sprinklers entirely.
20 feet would be amazing, Boulder Harbor would be filled again! I'm a skeptic so I'll believe when I see it ha. Thanks for sharing your restrictions there too I always find it interesting what other folks are doing. We just assume what's going on in Las Vegas is the standard for everyone else along the river but a lot of people are finding out that's not the case. Good news is places like your area are starting to implement the same things that Nevada did initially, so it's a start! The drought tolerant plants and landscaping like you mentioned is HUGE in my opinion, not only for conserving water, but for maintaining the natural ecosystems of the local area. Case in point is all the palm trees here... not native and now we have communities banning them because they are thirsty and harbor scorpions. Thank you for watching and hope you keep us updated if you go under more restrictions! 👍
@@mojo.adventures Will do, and thanks for what you do...educate! Have a good weekend!
Nice report. Factual with no fluff. I appreciate that.
Thanks for dropping in and leaving a comment👍
Super update! Love it on to the next
Thanks for the concise informational update. Keeping fingers crossed that some return to normal rain/snow levels is being seen AND that developers and users won’t return to their old ways!
Of course! appreciate you watching another update 👍 I hope for the same, but from what I've seen this will just be an excuse to ramp up again. It certainly didn't slow down at all in and around Vegas. Developers will only stop if the housing market crashes and they are forced to sit on inventory!
@@mojo.adventures They closed Yosemite park today due to fears of flooding, i wonder how bad its going to get once it starts to really warm up. So where is the water that is going to replace the water they released from lake Powell coming from? Mountain snow?
@@SDsailor7 I've been tracking the Yosemite situation, heavy snow all the way along the 395 corridor this season. It's going to be like when Death Valley flooded last year. You nailed it, the water to replace the high flow expirement is already incoming from the snow melt upstream. Powell is going to get A LOT more than Mead still (more on that next update!)
@@mojo.adventures So is that water that will be incoming to lake Powell from that melted snow going to take care of the problem (the drought) affecting the states in question? IF they properly manage it? And if Powell is going to geat ALOT of water what happens to the excess if lake Mead is already full? or will lake Mead be filled by the water that they are releasing now? or not? Thank you
This is awesome
thanks for checking it out! 👍
Question, Why is the local L.A. news pushing the “flood danger “ regarding the future melt off? If the drought was so bad , shouldn’t there be extra room for the water , in reservoirs and lakes ?
Many of California's reservoirs are already at or near 100% capacity with the enormous amount of rain they've had. And the flood danger is for areas other than reservoirs and lakes. They had a huge amount of snowfall in the mountains, and if it melts to quickly there will be terrible flooding.
@@jlansdowne got it , Thanks
Great question! I know, it seems it's either DROUGHT DROUGHT DROUGHT or FLOOD FLOOD FLOOD. Can't it ever be chill? 🤣 Well... part of that is certainly because the gloom and doom sells, but to their credit, they actually have a point now. Since there is not enough TOTAL storage capacity between all the reservoirs around the state, they can't store anymore usable water anywhere. After the heavy flooding of Jan-Mar, many of the reservoirs were filled and any more water that comes down now too fast now is just wasted. They will have to pre-emptively release a bunch of water to "prepare" for the next flood of snow melt to come and fill the reservoirs again. It really makes no sense when you look at it. This just happened at Oroville recently. The solution would have been to (1) build more reservoirs decades ago to outpace the growth, or (2) downsize demand and conserve more. Neither of that happened or will happen anytime soon. So despite ALL that water that came down, and the snow that will now for weeks, there is nowhere to put it but back into the ocean ASAP. Then by summer it will all be gone and the news will be back to DROUGHT! This is why there is so much talk about the "Sites Reservoir" there in CA needing to be built. Thank you for watching!
As the RainMaker, I am interested in the results of my efforts.
I would think the little Colorado River is also contributing a lot to lake Mead! It's watershed is at 354% of average!!
A lot of water and a lot of sediment! I would love to see that area during a flood or high flow release
El Nino is coming be safe if a warm AR Hits this will melt snow packs and added water volume expect 2 more years of wet we just need it cold 😂
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Mojo Adventures - didn't I say it a few weeks ago 😁 just wait as there is a lot upstream coming down stream. The mountain peaks along the Wasatch Front still has a lot on top and it's May, normally we start to see it melted. Problem in my opinion is we don't manage this large amount of water at once well enough for our population size. Think about it, how many reservoirs have been constructed in the past 10-20 years vs 1950-1980ish? We need better ways to store the water for later use. Here in Northern Utah or I should say the Wasatch Front we are lucky enough to live at the bottom of an ancient lake which has many underground aquifers and wet seasons will refill them. If you look at the Great Salt Lake you might ask, where does all the water go? Well a lot it evaporates but also a lot of it goes underground into aquifers which we started tapping into 2020-2022 and it showed with the lake shrinking.. This season and hopefully next will refill what we've used and what do we do with the rest? waste it imo We need more storage for water either upstream or tanks or something idk.. Last time I seen Lake Mead in person was 1993 through I think 95 and we partied on the lake a lot lol This was a time before the internet boomed and Lake Mead was the place to be for a 18-21 year old lol
Outstanding predications! Yep credit where credit is due 👍 Meanwhile my predictions of the high water level in Feb were obliterated! That's what I get for basing it off the USBR data 😂 Is it any wonder how we got here? Good points also, I think it's a resource management problem also. The infrastructure should have been in place BEFORE settling the west the way it has been. Then of course you have regulations in place like in CA where they are supposed to plan for a reliable water supply 10 years out or not build at all, and those laws have been bent or simply disregarded by big developers. It's such a big mess hard to tell where to start fixing it!
It seems like their main concern is the silt and the environment and not preserving as much water as possible for human consumption. That's the problem when you have environmentalists in charge of the water, their priorities are backwards.
I actually didn't consider that angle thanks for pointing that out. It would not surprise me if it was easier for the feds to justify a bulk release by dressing it up for environmental reasons rather than to save to thirsty wasteful desert irrigation
We just 'bought' another 1-2 years of drinking/bathing water thanks to this last heavy winter snowpack in the Sierra Nevadas and Colorado Rockies, BUT these out of staters, illegal aliens, and Yankee's keep moving here and increasing our state's water consumption. On top of that California is getting their state reservoirs overflowing and topped out, but expects us in the lower basin states to give them their allocated water allotment. The 1922 7 state water compact should be shelved and written based souly on population percentages ONLY. Las Veagas/Nevada is also ripping us off in Az./New Mexico to the recent lowest Lake Mead constructed an induction inlet to suck the lowest reservoir water level to them, when we in (Az.) would be declared at the 'dead pool' level..incredible..Robert at 68.
That's the truth, we've only "bought" a little more time! The question is... will there be any solutions implemented this time? I think a lot more people are paying attention now. Glad to see so much more interest in this topic! And hey I can't speak on the rest without being a hypocrite... I'm just another yankee who fled the crowded restrictive east looking for some open space to live and breath🤠
@@mojo.adventures I toned down my post just a bit, wrote post late at night and crabby with miss typed letters.
Ha no worries I got a laugh out of it, I've been in the southwest so long I find myself scolding new transplants daily now. I think I've officially earned the "desert privilege" after surviving so many summers here 👍
It must be global warming.