Lake Mead CU Update — August 4, 2026

Model date: 2026-08-04

Provisional operational depletion proxy

4,733 acre-feet per day

Lake Mead elevation 1,040.72 feet
Lake Mead storage 7,027,000 acre-feet
Storage change -9,000 acre-feet/day
Glen Canyon release 7,900 cfs
Hoover release 9,380 cfs
Lake Mead evaporation 1,551 AF/day
Reach-loss residual 3,181 AF/day
Uncertainty range 3,770–5,695 AF/day
7-day average Unavailable AF/day
Water-year cumulative 4,733 acre-feet
Top-down completeness 66.7%
Component completeness 16.7%
QA flag LOW DATA / EXTREME RESIDUAL / PROVISIONAL PROXY

Missing or provisional inputs: municipal net CU, agricultural CU, riparian ET, industrial CU, other losses, direct precipitation, local tributary inflow, return-flow accounting, configured USGS daily observations.

Lake Mead weather items

  • No matching NWS Las Vegas feed items were found.

Reclamation automated operational records are provisional and subject to review. The reach-loss value is an accounting residual, not an independently measured consumptive-use quantity.

Bureau of Reclamation daily report


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