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Hartwell Lake water level today

Reservoir in Hart, Georgia · Savannah River

648.66ft
197.71 m · NGVD29
Measured · provisional
Much below normal for the dateSteady
vs full pool ?
▼ 11.05 ft
24 hours
▼ 0.13 ft
7 days
▼ 0.63 ft
30 days
▼ 0.72 ft
Normal for Oct 21 ?
655.70 ft

What this means

Hartwell Lake is 11.05 ft below its full pool of 659.71 ft.

It is lower than on Oct 21 in every one of the last 10 years on record.

The lake has fallen 0.63 ft in 7 days and fallen 0.72 ft in 30 days.

Since 2016, the lowest daily level was 648.68 ft (Oct 2026) and the highest 664.21 ft (Jun 2018).

Hartwell Lake level chart

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Measured Normal range for the date (middle 50% of past years) Full pool

Same date in past years

DateLevelvs today
Oct 21, 2025655.69 ft▲ 7.03 ft
Oct 21, 2024658.74 ft▲ 10.08 ft
Oct 21, 2023654.20 ft▲ 5.54 ft
Oct 21, 2022654.87 ft▲ 6.21 ft
Oct 21, 2021661.33 ft▲ 12.67 ft
Oct 21, 2020661.26 ft▲ 12.60 ft
Oct 21, 2019655.84 ft▲ 7.18 ft
Oct 21, 2018658.55 ft▲ 9.89 ft
Oct 21, 2017651.73 ft▲ 3.07 ft
Oct 21, 2016652.66 ft▲ 4.00 ft

Records & details

Highest
664.21 ft on Jun 3, 2018
Lowest
648.68 ft on Oct 21, 2026
Records from
2016 (10 years of daily data)
Full pool
659.71 ft (top of conservation pool, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
Storage
1,986,000 acre-ft
Inflow
11,417 cfs (323.3 m³/s)
Outflow
11,417 cfs (323.3 m³/s)
Water temperature
Not measured here

What acre-feet and % full mean

Full history: yearly highs and lows, monthly averages →

Weather & wind

This Afternoon74°F · Sunny
Wind WNW 2 mph
Tonight49°F · Clear
Wind ENE 2 mph
Thursday74°F · Sunny
Wind NNE 5 mph
Thursday Night50°F · Clear
Wind NE 0 to 7 mph
Friday70°F · Sunny
Wind ENE 10 mph
Friday Night49°F · Clear
Wind NE 5 to 12 mph

NOAA National Weather Service forecast for this lake's location, updated 2 h ago.

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