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New Photos Show Lake Powell Half Full
livescience.com ^ | May 23, 2014 09:37am ET | Stephanie Pappas

Posted on 05/25/2014 9:58:25 AM PDT by ckilmer

The mud-choked Colorado River flows through the dry lakebed of northern Lake Powell in a new satellite image released yesterday (May 22).

Western drought has left this reservoir on the border of Utah and Arizona less than half full, the satellite image captured on May 13 reveals. As of May 21, the lake was at 42 percent of capacity, according to U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) data.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: California; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: coloradoriver; g42; lakepowell; powell
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1 posted on 05/25/2014 9:58:25 AM PDT by ckilmer
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To: ckilmer

I think they meant half full.


2 posted on 05/25/2014 9:59:34 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: ckilmer

Didn’t we okay sending a ton of water to Mexico recently?

That Obama... such a smart guy


3 posted on 05/25/2014 10:00:08 AM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Whoops! I think they meant half empty.


4 posted on 05/25/2014 10:00:19 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: ckilmer
lake powell at half capacity The muddy Colorado River moves through the dry bed of northern Lake Powell on May 13, 2014
5 posted on 05/25/2014 10:00:39 AM PDT by ckilmer
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To: FlingWingFlyer

or half empty...


6 posted on 05/25/2014 10:02:00 AM PDT by DanielRedfoot (Creepy Ass Cracker)
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To: ckilmer

I just read the other day that they are celebrating that the Colorado river reached the Sea of Cortez for the first time since the 70’s.


7 posted on 05/25/2014 10:03:13 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin
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To: ckilmer

http://lakepowell.water-data.com/


8 posted on 05/25/2014 10:04:48 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: ckilmer

The last time I visited Lake Powell in 1984 it was in danger of overflowing the top of the dam at Page, AZ


10 posted on 05/25/2014 10:13:24 AM PDT by anoldafvet (If you think the government is capable of taking care of you, just look at the VA.)
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To: ckilmer

I lived and worked at Hite Marina on the north end of the lake.

The marina is no longer there.

How long before they can no longer make electricity with the dam ?


11 posted on 05/25/2014 10:13:46 AM PDT by maine yankee (I got my Governor at 'Marden's')
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To: ckilmer

The same amount of water as 100 years ago, supplying millions more people.

Seems to me it’s not a matter of supply, but one of demand.


12 posted on 05/25/2014 10:21:00 AM PDT by airborne (My heroes don't wear capes - My heroes wear dog tags!)
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To: ckilmer

Sounds to me like they are letting too much water go downstream from the dam.


13 posted on 05/25/2014 10:22:57 AM PDT by babygene ( .)
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To: ckilmer

Glo-bull warmchangdisruption, dontchaknow.


14 posted on 05/25/2014 10:24:51 AM PDT by Thorliveshere (Minnesota Survivor)
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To: maine yankee

Recent studies indicate the lake levels might drop below the minimum of 1050ft elev to fill hydroelectric generation inlets as early as 2017, depending upon worldwide weather models.

Now that HAARP is being abandoned by the USAF and being transferred to possibly Canada, and a number of other progressive leaning countries/Agenda 21, who knows?


15 posted on 05/25/2014 10:24:52 AM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: babygene

If they held more water in Lake Powell, Lake Mead would be even lower than it is.


16 posted on 05/25/2014 10:46:09 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: ckilmer

SO that’s what I look like from space.


17 posted on 05/25/2014 10:47:25 AM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: ckilmer

The watersheds of the upper Colorado river are not in a drought- they had close to 100 percent of snowpack, and it’s still snowing. Don’t know why they’ve let so much water out, but it’s not because of a drought.


18 posted on 05/25/2014 11:03:38 AM PDT by Red Boots
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To: Red Boots

I remember when Al Gore had ordered water released so he could have a nice backdrop of water rushing by in a campaign commercial. I suspect that the water is purposely being diverted just like water to California’s Central Valley is purposely being blocked.


19 posted on 05/25/2014 11:08:59 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: airborne

There is your answer.


20 posted on 05/25/2014 11:10:57 AM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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