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Lake Mead's water levels are slowly rising, a pattern that might eventually expose more human remains buried in the Nevada reservoir's depths.
Lake Mead visitors over the Fourth of July holiday weekend noticed the receding water levels and the difficulty of launching ...
Lake Mead is rapidly hurtling towards dead pool level, which would be dire for surrounding communities that rely on it for electricity.
Explore the surprising recovery of Lake Mead, driven by record-breaking snowpack and Colorado River inflows, and its implications on water conservation and regional security.
Lake Mead is rising for the first time in more than a decade thanks to ample snowpack in Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah.
Over the last 26 days, Lake Mead has risen 2 feet 8 inches. Before that, for six months, Lake Mead’s water level had been on a steep downward trajectory.
Measurements taken at the end of January show Lake Mead's water levels to be 1,072.67 feet, the highest measured since May 2021.
Lake Mead boaters have been posting reports about the rising water level at Boulder Harbor, and commenters hope it will reopen someday.
According to Santos, Lake Mead is expected to rise another 6 feet over the next two months, totaling 15 feet by the end of this year.
Satellite images of the Colorado River provided by NASA show the powerful rush of water out of Glen Canyon Dam in late April moved sand down the river — mission accomplished.
Boaters like Mikey Tantalo are excited at the rising water levels. Tantalo sent a photo he took on Sunday of a formerly sunken boat once again surrounded by water.