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Swede

(40,068 posts) Sun May 10, 2026, 09:15 PM May 10

Lake Powell on the Colorado River is set to receive 13% of its normal spring runoff, the lowest amount from upstream

How are them data centers supposed to keep running?

Lake Powell on the Colorado River is set to receive 13% of its normal spring runoff, the lowest amount from upstream snowmelt on record.
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Lake Powell on the Colorado River is set to receive 13% of its normal spring runoff, the lowest amount from upstream (Original Post) Swede May 10 OP

Flaming Gorge released a million-acre feet VGNonly May 10 #1

The Lake Powell dam has no business being there. Xolodno May 10 #2

So horribly awful.. #Climate Change due Cha May 11 #3

VGNonly

(8,552 posts)

1. Flaming Gorge released a million-acre feet

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Sun May 10, 2026, 09:49 PM

May 10

about 2 weeks ago. Flaming Gorge still has some snowpack in the Green River basin, but will likely have no more additional releases other than normal flows.. The upper Colorado basin has basically no snowpack. Lake Powell is down about 35 feet since its high level of June 20 2025. The post of no power production at Lake Powell is fast approaching. After that dead pool, maybe by September.

Xolodno

(7,367 posts)

2. The Lake Powell dam has no business being there.

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Sun May 10, 2026, 11:22 PM

May 10

It should be decommissioned and deconstructed. Let the water flow to Lake Mead. It's basically a hangover left from the Bureau of Reclamation that went into drunken state of trying to dam everything.

Cha

(320,554 posts)

3. So horribly awful.. #Climate Change due

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2026, 12:13 AM

May 11

to Fascist Climate Polluters

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Lake Powell on the Colorado River is set to receive 13% of its normal spring runoff, the lowest amount from upstream

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