Lake Level rapidly rising!

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That's the beauty of it all, no one knows for sure and only time will tell. Who doesn't love a great, nail biting suspense thriller? haha
 
The LPWD shows that Hite needs like 30 some feet to be usable? Don't get that. I haven't been to Hite since 2000 at 3683 feet, so no concept of launching "on the river."
 
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The LP Water Database states minimum usable is 3650. Maybe David Fordham will chime in.
 
The data base is for using the concrete ramp. At lower water levels, there is launching available at the old marina road 1/2 a mile down stream of the concrete ramp. Back 15 to 20 years or so give or take you could launch there as low as 3604. As the years went by and more silt was deposited, this level grew higher. The last time I launched there it was 3611 I think about 6 or 7 years ago, and you could have launched to probably 3609. The river channel changes each year winding through the silt deposits and changing the channel each year. Time and someone going to look will tell when and at what water level some one will be able to launch at Hite. This also depends on what size boat you have, what kind of truck you have and how bad you want to go. I have had it take me 20 minute to cut my out of the Tammie's to get to water deep enough to trim the big motor down. It will take at least a month for the water to clear up enough to be fishable for me. I don't like fishing in muddy water. When it does clear up though the boil fishing should be tremendous up north. Past experience tells me that a lot of shad survive in the muddy water which makes a lot of them available later in the year.
 
If you go to the Lake Powell water database, the link is at the bottom of Waynes words home page, you will see the Lake levels and inflows for the last 14 days. You will see it has dropped the last 3 days from peaks at higher flows in previous days. You can also click on the link to rivers flowing in to lake Powell and see the future inflows that are heading to the Lake.
 
I launched my aluminum boat in the late summer /fall at Hite at 3610 several years back, I cant remember the year for sure. I think as Dungee said, I think it was 2011. You had to be a bit careful until you hit the channel , Launching was pretty easy. Several bass boats launched that day as well. It was at the old primitive dirt ramp down toward where the Marina used to be. When I was down there this spring they were making some shoreline improvements to the shoreline access road and the "shoreline" camping areas. Not sure if they did anything that would aid or hinder launching when the water comes up?
 
Getting to the river channel is the tricky part, once there it’s usually a non issue. One trick we’ve used it to have snap shots of google earth to see exactly where the channel is. The channel is fairly deep even at current lake levels.
 
Snow pack is at 1329% of average... that said, as the lake rises, it takes more water to raise it each foot since the lake gets bigger (wider) as it rises vertically. It will rise for another month is my guess, but the incremental increases will be smaller despite equal or even slightly larger inflows. I’d love to see it get to 3630! The lake is a blast at the level as the canyons like labyrinth, and cathedral just seem to go on forever!

Not to mention you can pull up to within 1/4 mile of Rainbow at the point
 
So the string of consecutive days of 1+ foot rise ended on June 24. But the 16 days in a row equaled the 1993 record, which lasted from May 19-June 3 that year.

Maybe more impressively, this year has now had the second highest rise in any three-week period in the lake's history (not counting when the lake was filling in 1964).

Here's the largest 21-day rise since the lake exceeded 3500 elevation:

2005 - 22.96 feet (May 20-June 9)
2019 - 22.16 feet (June 7-June 27)
1993 - 21.19 feet (May 19-June 7)
1973 - 20.87 feet (May 12-June 1)
1968 - 20.05 feet (June 1-June 21)

Notably, this year is the latest in the season such a rise has ever happened... also notable that the rise this year is more impressive than in 2005, which took the lake from 3572-3594, compared to 3588 to nearly 3610 this year... it takes a much greater net volume to achieve that kind of rise at a higher lake level...

Overall, 1993 was the most impressive of the bunch, since the lake went from 3633-3653 in the same 21-day timeframe...

Still, a great year so far, and it's still going on...
 
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