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Level of the Lake

Lake Buchanan

Elevation at Buchanan Dam

1,018.39ft

feet above sea level

1.61 ft below full · up 0.07 ft this week

Near full4 of 4 ramps above water · Cedar Point Recreation Area closes 11.39 ft lower
updated 5:30 PM CST

Past 24 hours

−0.01 ft

level change

Since midnight

−0.01 ft

level change

Past 30 days

−0.11 ft

level change

Storage

844,485

acre-feet · 96% full

Buchanan + Travis

99%

combined storage

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Buchanan is holding steady. Water in and water out are about even this week. That puts it in the “Near full” range, 1.96 ft below the “Over the spillway” line.

Past 30 days

−0.11 ft over this window
1,018.301,018.401,018.501,018.60Oct 15Oct 30Nov 14
Lake elevation, past 30 days, now 1,018.40 ft, down 0.11 ft over the window
DateElevation (ft)
Oct 151,018.51
Oct 161,018.51
Oct 171,018.42
Oct 181,018.39
Oct 191,018.38
Oct 201,018.37
Oct 211,018.37
Oct 221,018.37
Oct 231,018.35
Oct 241,018.35
Oct 251,018.34
Oct 261,018.34
Oct 271,018.33
Oct 281,018.33
Oct 291,018.34
Oct 301,018.35
Oct 311,018.35
Nov 11,018.34
Nov 21,018.32
Nov 31,018.39
Nov 41,018.37
Nov 51,018.36
Nov 61,018.33
Nov 71,018.31
Nov 81,018.36
Nov 91,018.38
Nov 101,018.38
Nov 111,018.38
Nov 121,018.39
Nov 131,018.40
Nov 141,018.40

Daily mean elevation · TWDB (LCRA gauge) · provisional

The lake in cross-section

Historic high 1021.41991Full pool 10202013 drought 985.27Historic low 983.719521,018.39 ft

Rivers into the lake

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220 cfs220 cfsColorado220 cfsLake BuchananColorado incl. San Saba Riv…96% fullBuchanan storage
SteadyReceding · high water draining downOn the rise · climbing right nowInbound wave · big rise upstreamFlooding · NWS, by river heightNo current readingRising or falling is judged from each gauge’s last 48 hours, scaled to its river. Dot speed follows the flow. NWS flood status comes from river height and outranks direction.

Streamflow at the river gauge (USGS or LCRA, whichever is newer). Labels are gauge readings in cfs. Line width isn’t to scale. LCRA’s daily storage for the lake changed +221 af ≈ +0.12 in on Nov 13.

The rivers, gauge by gauge

220cfs combined

Gauged rivers only. Runoff below these gauges and ungauged arms aren’t counted. Streamflow: USGS or LCRA Hydromet, whichever reported last for each gauge (provisional). Flood status: NOAA/NWS, from river height at each gauge rather than flow.

The Highland Lakes chain · upstream → downstream

Buchanan

1,018.39ft

1.61 ft below full

+0.07 ft · 7d

Inks

887.21ft

0.49 ft below full

+0.02 ft · 7d

LBJ

824.57ft

0.43 ft below full

−0.12 ft · 7d

Marble Falls

736.31ft

0.69 ft below full

−0.44 ft · 7d

Travis

681.38ft

full

+4.27 ft · 7d

Austin

492.03ft

0.77 ft below full

−0.31 ft · 7d