Colorado River Boating
Lakes Water Levels Information
Feb. 2012
Lake Powell - Lake Powell reached it peak for the season in August. Rivers feeding Lake Powell are running at 160% of the Jan.2012 avg.
This has been a great year for water levels in Lake Powell here a chart of the high points in August for the last 10 years. More water will now be moved to Lake Mead
The Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and the Bureau of Reclamation, as well as community partners, are hosting the Museum of Northern Arizona's Therizinosaur: Mystery of the Sickle-Claw Dinosaur exhibit at Carl Hayden Visitor Center in Page, AZ. The visitor center's current operating hours are 8:00 am to 5:00 pm seven days a week. There is no fee to enter the building. Exhibits will be there until the end of March 2012.
National Park Service (NPS) and concessioner-operated facilities have reduce hours of operation at some facilities at GCNR, while closing others. Click here for list
Note: Regarding the 2-stroke, 4-stroke engine issue: According to the Code of Federal Regulations Title 36, 7.70(e)(3): After December 31, 2012, no one may operate a PWC that does not meet the 2006 emission standards set by EPA for the manufacturing of two-stroke engines. This also true for Lake Mead NRA.
Lake Mead's Lake Mead is now at 58%, thanks to the wettest year in more than a decade on the drought-ravaged Colorado River. Since the drought took hold 11 years ago, the overdrawn Colorado has flowed at just 69 percent of its 100-year average. This month the is flow at 95 percent of average. Here are the current ramp conditions for Lake Mead and Mohave.
After December 31, 2012, no one may operate a personal watercraft (PWC) that does not meet the 2006 emission standards set by EPA for the manufacturing of two-stroke engines. A person operating a personal watercraft that meets the EPA 2006 emission standards through the use of direct-injection two-stroke or four-stroke engines, or the equivalent thereof, is not subject to this prohibition and will be allowed to operate as described in this section.
The NPS and Forever Resorts, LLC dedicated the first floating building project in the world to be registered for LEED® certification at Lake Mead National Recreation Area's Cottonwood Cove Resort and Marina on Lake Mohave.
The bridge over the Hoover Dam is open for traffic.
DesertUSA has videos on Lake Mead and Hoover Dam, Glen Canyon Dam, Lees Ferry, Rainbow Bridge, and Lake Mojave's Davis Dam and Laughlin, NV.
Click on the links below for more information on each lake.
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DesertUSA has videos on Lake Mead and Hoover Dam, Glen Canyon Dam, Lees Ferry, Rainbow Bridge, and Lake Mojave's Davis Dam and Laughlin, NV
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Take a virtual trip on Lake Mohave and the Colorado river in this DesertUSA video. If you have never been to Laughlin you need to see this video before you pick a place to stay. Click Here |
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Click on picture above to read the story of Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge, named it the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. O'Callaghan
Bridge walkway
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