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Bardwell Lake water level today

Reservoir in Ellis, Texas · Waxahachie Creek

419.03ft
127.72 m · NGVD29
Measured · provisional
Normal for the date
vs full pool ?
▼ 1.97 ft
24 hours
▼ 0.03 ft
7 days
▼ 0.22 ft
30 days
▼ 0.16 ft
Normal for Oct 21 ?
419.61 ft

What this means

Bardwell Lake is 1.97 ft below its full pool of 421.00 ft.

It is lower than on Oct 21 in 8 of the last 10 years.

The lake has fallen 0.22 ft in 7 days and fallen 0.16 ft in 30 days.

Since 2000, the lowest daily level was 415.69 ft (Dec 2011) and the highest 440.68 ft (Jun 2015).

Bardwell 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, 2025420.32 ft▲ 1.29 ft
Oct 21, 2024419.84 ft▲ 0.81 ft
Oct 21, 2023419.30 ft▲ 0.27 ft
Oct 21, 2022418.21 ft▼ 0.82 ft
Oct 21, 2021420.55 ft▲ 1.52 ft
Oct 21, 2020420.69 ft▲ 1.66 ft
Oct 21, 2019418.91 ft▼ 0.12 ft
Oct 21, 2018433.31 ft▲ 14.28 ft
Oct 21, 2017419.34 ft▲ 0.31 ft
Oct 21, 2016420.48 ft▲ 1.45 ft

Records & details

Highest
440.68 ft on Jun 18, 2015
Lowest
415.69 ft on Dec 2, 2011
Records from
2000 (26 years of daily data)
Full pool
421.00 ft (top of conservation pool, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
Storage
40,487 acre-ft
Inflow
12.6 cfs (0.36 m³/s)
Outflow
0.0 cfs (0.00 m³/s)
Water temperature
Not measured here

What acre-feet and % full mean

Full history: yearly highs and lows, monthly averages →

Weather & wind

This Afternoon80°F · Sunny
Wind 0 mph
Tonight56°F · Mostly Clear
Wind 0 mph
Thursday83°F · Sunny
Wind ENE 0 to 5 mph
Thursday Night57°F · Mostly Clear
Wind 0 mph
Friday84°F · Mostly Sunny
Wind SE 0 to 5 mph
Friday Night58°F · Mostly Clear
Wind SE 0 to 5 mph

NOAA National Weather Service forecast for this lake's location, updated 1 h ago.

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