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C. M. Harden Lake water level today

Reservoir in Parke, Indiana · Raccoon Creek

660.85ft
201.43 m · NGVD29
Measured · provisional
Normal for the dateFalling
vs full pool ?
▼ 1.15 ft
24 hours
▼ 0.57 ft
7 days
▼ 1.02 ft
30 days
▼ 1.38 ft
Normal for Oct 21 ?
660.74 ft

What this means

C. M. Harden Lake is 1.15 ft below its full pool of 662.00 ft.

It is lower than on Oct 21 in 6 of the last 10 years.

The lake has fallen 1.02 ft in 7 days and fallen 1.38 ft in 30 days.

Since 2002, the lowest daily level was 638.59 ft (Feb 2026) and the highest 689.98 ft (Jul 2015).

C. M. Harden 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, 2025660.77 ft▼ 0.08 ft
Oct 21, 2024660.23 ft▼ 0.62 ft
Oct 21, 2023661.39 ft▲ 0.54 ft
Oct 21, 2022660.43 ft▼ 0.42 ft
Oct 21, 2021661.66 ft▲ 0.81 ft
Oct 21, 2020660.93 ft▲ 0.08 ft
Oct 21, 2019661.42 ft▲ 0.57 ft
Oct 21, 2018662.10 ft▲ 1.25 ft
Oct 21, 2017660.51 ft▼ 0.34 ft
Oct 21, 2016662.68 ft▲ 1.83 ft

Records & details

Highest
689.98 ft on Jul 21, 2015
Lowest
638.59 ft on Feb 13, 2026
Records from
2002 (25 years of daily data)
Full pool
662.00 ft (top of conservation pool, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
Storage
48,957 acre-ft
Inflow
0.0 cfs (0.00 m³/s)
Outflow
614 cfs (17.4 m³/s)
Water temperature
Not measured here

What acre-feet and % full mean

Full history: yearly highs and lows, monthly averages →

Weather & wind

Tonight44°F · Clear
Wind NNW 1 mph
Thursday73°F · Sunny
Wind NNE 0 to 6 mph
Thursday Night45°F · Clear
Wind ENE 1 to 5 mph
Friday72°F · Sunny
Wind ESE 1 to 5 mph
Friday Night46°F · Mostly Clear
Wind ESE 5 mph
Saturday72°F · Sunny
Wind SE 5 mph

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

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