Vegas just put online it’s third straw they tunneled under one of the deepest parts of the lake and came up out of the bottom like a bathtub drain. They then put a 100+ food intake structure to keep the inlet out of the bottom waters and into the “heart” of the deep waters. The top of that intake structure is at 860 feet above MSL the height that Lake meadgoes into dead pool were not a single drop can be sent down river is at 895 MSL that means there is 35 feet of water or the intake at that point that is all Las Vegas’s that 35 feet holds about 2 million acre feet of water which is just over 6 years of water for Las Vegas this assumes they won’t cut into the shaft of that intake structure and let water in at lower elevations and also that no water comes down stream after dead pool is reached. The actual bottom of lake mead is around 820 feet MSL. At no point in the Colorado’s history has the flow been under 1 million acre feet per year once dead pool is reached only Vegas can draw water out and since they use less than their allocated 300,000 acre feet in the dead pool the inflows are three times what they use Vegas will never be out of water once they drilled that lower intake shaft.
Never read that anywhere. Thanks.