Lake Powell water level
Colorado River · Utah · operated by USBR (Glen Canyon Dam)
By Mike, independent developer behind zovo.one. Readings pulled live from the same USGS feed the operator reports to.
Lake Powell is at 3,521.4 ft as of Aug 6, 2026, per USGS data; full pool is 3,700 ft.
Where Lake Powell sits in its operating band
The reading lands 178.6 ft below full pool. Minimum power pool is the line below which Glen Canyon Dam can no longer generate hydropower; dead pool is where water can no longer reach the outlet works. Today the surface is 31.4 ft above minimum power pool and 151.4 ft above dead pool.
The band share is an elevation-distance fraction, not a storage-volume percentage. Reservoirs widen toward the top, so volume is not linear with elevation.
Wondering how deep the water actually is at the dam right now? How deep is Lake Powell right now? computes it live from this same gage.
How the level compares lately
Over the roughly 30-day series the gage fell 3.1 ft; the last 24 hours moved it down 0.1 ft. For readers outside the U.S., the surface is about 1,073.3 m above sea level.
Check any elevation yourself. Type a level in feet above sea level (a ramp cutoff, a marina mark) to see how far it sits below full pool and in meters.
About Lake Powell
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Where these numbers come from
Every figure on this page is recomputed in code from a public government feed, never typed by hand. The live elevation is a USGS gage reading; feet below full pool, the operating-band gaps, the ~30-day change, and the meter conversion are all derived from that one validated reading and the published reference elevations. The reading is timestamped in the gauge above, and LakeLevelNow pulls the same feed the operator reports to.