Reservoirs
Below normalLake Havasu water level
Live reservoir storage and water level in Colorado (Lower) basin, Arizona / California
Data through Aug 12, 2026 · source last checked Aug 13, 2026 · page revised Aug 13, 2026
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- Storage
About this data
- Source
- US Bureau of Reclamation RISE; California reservoirs via CA DWR CDEC
- Series
- End-of-day reservoir storage
- Geography
- Lake Havasu water level
- Unit
- acre-feet
- Calculation
- Daily reading
- Last observation
- Aug 12, 2026
- Update frequency
- Daily
Now 523,653 af, 11% below the 5-yr median, 85% of capacity.
Lake Havasu storage stands at 536,364 af, 7% below the 5-year median. Storage rose 0.7% on the week, but is down 1.3% month-over-month and 6.4% year-over-year.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | 523,653 af | 534,929 af | -2.1% |
| Month over month | 523,653 af | 532,468 af | -1.7% |
| Year over year | 523,653 af | 572,629 af | -8.6% |
| vs 5-yr median | 523,653 af | 588,963 af | -11.1% |
| Measure | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Full pool elevation | 450 ft above sea level (maximum water surface elevation) | USBR |
| Maximum depth at the dam | 80 ft | USBR |
| Surface area at full pool | 20,390 acres | USACE NID |
| Total capacity | 619,400 acre-feet | USBR |
About Lake Havasu
Parker Dam impounds Lake Havasu on the lower Colorado, the forebay for two of the Southwest's largest diversions: Metropolitan Water District's Colorado River Aqueduct to coastal Southern California and the Central Arizona Project pumping toward Phoenix and Tucson. Roughly three-quarters of Parker Dam's height sits below the original riverbed, which is why it is often called the deepest dam in the world.
Total capacity is 619,400 af, over the past five years storage has ranged from 498,457 af to 605,080 af.
Those figures describe the reservoir at full pool, not today. The chart at the top of this page tracks storage in acre-feet rather than water depth, so read the current figure against total capacity for how full the reservoir is, and against the full pool elevation and maximum depth for the size of the water column behind the dam. The two do not move together one for one: a reservoir narrows as it deepens, so one holding half its capacity still stands more than half as deep.
Sources: full pool elevation and maximum depth from the Bureau of Reclamation; surface area from the Army Corps' National Inventory of Dams; total capacity from the Bureau of Reclamation.