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Barker Reservoir is a flood control lake. It is not used for water supply and under normal conditions it is empty.

Historical Data

Date Percent Full Mean Water Level
(ft)
Reservoir Storage
(acre-ft)
Conservation Storage
(acre-ft)
Conservation Capacity
(acre-ft)
Surface Area
(acres)
Today 2023-10-01 - n.a. - 70.04 - n.a. - - n.a. - - n.a. - - n.a. -
Yesterday 2023-09-30 - n.a. - 70.22 - n.a. - - n.a. - - n.a. - - n.a. -
2 days ago 2023-09-29 - n.a. - 70.83 - n.a. - - n.a. - - n.a. - - n.a. -
1 week ago 2023-09-24 - n.a. - 69.52 - n.a. - - n.a. - - n.a. - - n.a. -
1 month ago 2023-09-01 - n.a. - 69.64 - n.a. - - n.a. - - n.a. - - n.a. -
3 months ago 2023-07-01 - n.a. - 69.72 - n.a. - - n.a. - - n.a. - - n.a. -
6 months ago 2023-04-01 - n.a. - 69.56 - n.a. - - n.a. - - n.a. - - n.a. -
1 year ago 2022-10-01 - n.a. - 69.35 - n.a. - - n.a. - - n.a. - - n.a. -
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Percent Full is based on Conservation Storage and Conservation Capacity and doesn't account for storage in flood pool.

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   Values above, including today's are averaged conditions. For near real-time instantaneous water level, see table below or the interactive map viewer.

Most Recent Instantaneous Water Level

Date/time Water Level
(ft)
Flood Pool Lower Bound
(ft)
Height Into Flood Pool
(ft)
Most recent 2023-10-01 02:45 69.97 70.90 -0.93 below flood pool
1 hour prior 2023-10-01 01:45 69.99 70.90 -0.91 below flood pool
2 hours prior 2023-10-01 00:45 70.02 70.90 -0.88 below flood pool
6 hours prior 2023-09-30 20:45 70.05 70.90 -0.85 below flood pool
12 hours prior 2023-09-30 14:45 70.18 70.90 -0.72 below flood pool
24 hours prior 2023-09-30 02:45 70.37 70.90 -0.53 below flood pool
48 hours prior 2023-09-29 02:45 71.10 70.90 0.20 into flood pool
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Data is provisional and subject to revision.

Additional Information

Impoundment date 1945-01-01
Gauge USGS:08072500
Vertical datum NAVD88
Dead pool elevation 70.90 ft above NAVD88
Emergency spillway crest elevation 103.70 ft above NGVD29
Top of dam elevation 112.40 ft above NGVD29
Data download (CSV) period of record, last one year, last 30 days

Elevation-Area-Capacity Curves

1974-10-01 (source: TWDB)
2008-10-01 (source: USACE)

Lake Location