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Lake Red Rock Pool water level today

Reservoir in Marion, Iowa · Des Moines

746.89ft
227.65 m · NGVD29
Measured · provisional
Above normal for the dateFalling
vs full pool ?
▲ 4.89 ft
24 hours
▼ 0.31 ft
7 days
▼ 4.36 ft
30 days
▼ 0.01 ft
Normal for Oct 22 ?
743.53 ft

What this means

Lake Red Rock Pool is 4.89 ft above its full pool of 742.00 ft.

It is lower than on Oct 22 in 2 of the last 10 years.

The lake has fallen 4.36 ft in 7 days and fallen 0.01 ft in 30 days.

Since 2011, the lowest daily level was 677.84 ft (Feb 2012) and the highest 775.85 ft (Jun 2011).

Lake Red Rock Pool 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 22, 2025743.99 ft▼ 2.90 ft
Oct 22, 2024741.92 ft▼ 4.97 ft
Oct 22, 2023741.66 ft▼ 5.23 ft
Oct 22, 2022742.43 ft▼ 4.46 ft
Oct 22, 2021744.03 ft▼ 2.86 ft
Oct 22, 2020741.89 ft▼ 5.00 ft
Oct 22, 2019749.42 ft▲ 2.53 ft
Oct 22, 2018770.38 ft▲ 23.49 ft
Oct 22, 2017743.61 ft▼ 3.28 ft
Oct 22, 2016744.02 ft▼ 2.87 ft

Records & details

Highest
775.85 ft on Jun 28, 2011
Lowest
677.84 ft on Feb 16, 2012
Records from
2011 (16 years of daily data)
Full pool
742.00 ft (top of conservation pool, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
Storage
273,827 acre-ft
Inflow
12,705 cfs (359.8 m³/s)
Outflow
16,690 cfs (472.6 m³/s)
Water temperature
Not measured here

What acre-feet and % full mean

Full history: yearly highs and lows, monthly averages →

Weather & wind

Tonight51°F · Mostly Clear
Wind S 3 mph
Thursday77°F · Sunny
Wind S 0 to 5 mph
Thursday Night52°F · Mostly Clear
Wind SSE 5 mph
Friday77°F · Sunny
Wind SSE 5 to 13 mph
Friday Night57°F · Partly Cloudy
Wind SSE 10 mph
Saturday76°F · Partly Sunny
Wind S 12 mph

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

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