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Wilson Lake water level today

Reservoir in Russell, Kansas · Saline River

1,511.15ft
460.60 m · gauge reading (local datum, not an elevation)
Measured · provisional
Normal for the dateSteady
vs full pool ?
▼ 4.85 ft
24 hours
▼ 0.01 ft
7 days
▼ 0.07 ft
30 days
▲ 0.32 ft
Normal for Oct 21 ?
1,513.93 ft

What this means

Wilson Lake is 4.85 ft below its full pool of 1,516.00 ft.

It is lower than on Oct 21 in 9 of the last 10 years.

The lake has fallen 0.07 ft in 7 days and risen 0.32 ft in 30 days.

Since 2012, the lowest daily level was 1,505.46 ft (Apr 2016) and the highest 1,527.10 ft (Jun 2019).

Wilson 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, 20251,510.59 ft▼ 0.56 ft
Oct 21, 20241,511.38 ft▲ 0.23 ft
Oct 21, 20231,513.28 ft▲ 2.13 ft
Oct 21, 20221,514.58 ft▲ 3.43 ft
Oct 21, 20211,515.42 ft▲ 4.27 ft
Oct 21, 20201,515.30 ft▲ 4.15 ft
Oct 21, 20191,515.75 ft▲ 4.60 ft
Oct 21, 20181,517.98 ft▲ 6.83 ft
Oct 21, 20171,517.16 ft▲ 6.01 ft
Oct 21, 20161,517.10 ft▲ 5.95 ft

Records & details

Highest
1,527.10 ft on Jun 11, 2019
Lowest
1,505.46 ft on Apr 16, 2016
Records from
2012 (14 years of daily data)
Full pool
1,516.00 ft (top of conservation pool, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
Storage
196,079 acre-ft
Inflow
5.0 cfs (0.14 m³/s)
Outflow
5.0 cfs (0.14 m³/s)
Water temperature
Not measured here

What acre-feet and % full mean

Full history: yearly highs and lows, monthly averages →

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