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Reservoir Monitoring Update

By November 4, 2018

TRWD staff continues to monitor conditions in the TRWD reservoir watersheds 24 hours a day.  All TRWD reservoirs that are above conservation are discharging and being returned to conservation level.  Current lake levels can be viewed on the TRWD Home Page.  This will be the final post until conditions warrant an update. Please check back.

The latest update of reservoir conditions follows:

Lake Bridgeport

  • Current reservoir elevation: 836.40 ft-msl.
  • Conservation level elevation: 836.00 ft-msl.
  • Change in past 24 hours: +0.09 ft.
  • Current discharge is 445 cfs.

Eagle Mountain Lake

  • Current reservoir elevation: 649.38 ft-msl.
  • Conservation level elevation: 649.10 ft-msl.
  • Change in past 24 hours: +0.05
  • Current discharge is 730 cfs.

Lake Worth (owned and operated by the City of Fort Worth)

  • Current reservoir elevation: 594.32 ft-msl.
  • Conservation level elevation: 594.00 ft-msl.
  • Change in past 24 hours: +0.03 ft.
  • Current discharge is 640 cfs.
  • See City of Fort Worth news feed for updates on lake.

Cedar Creek

  • Current reservoir elevation: 322.43 ft-msl.
  • Conservation level elevation: 322.00 ft-msl.
  • Change in past 24 hours: +0.03 ft.
  • Current discharge is 3,590 cfs.

Richland-Chambers

  • Current reservoir elevation: 315.71 ft-msl.
  • Conservation level elevation: 315.00 ft-msl.
  • Change in past 24 hours: -0.19 ft.
  • Current discharge is 5,640 cfs.

Please call the Flood Hotline for further information.

817-720-4296.

If prompted to leave a message, the flood monitor on duty will return your call within 30 minutes.

*ft-msl – feet above mean sea level; cfs – cubic feet per second

Post based on conditions as of November 4, 2018, at 9:00 AM

Lake Current Level Conservation Level* Level Difference**
Arlington 549.81 550.00 -0.19
Benbrook 693.30 694.00 -0.70
Bridgeport 821.21 836.00 -14.79
Cedar Creek 322.04 322.00 0.04
Eagle Mountain 644.74 649.10 -4.36
Lake Worth 590.89 594.00 -3.11
Richland-Chambers 315.30 315.00 0.30
*Conservation Level: The permitted level of water an entity is allowed to hold in a lake. Any amount above the conservation level is used for the temporary storage of flood waters and must be released downstream.
**Difference: Amount above or below conservation level.
For more information read our daily reports or the TRWD Lake Level Blog.

Check out the TRWD OneRain portal for a visualization of this information and more.

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