If you’ve followed Colorado River news at any point in the last decade, you know the script by heart. Record lows, grim projections, looming cuts, repeat. Few cities have had more reason to dread those headlines than Scottsdale. This fall, however, the script finally flipped.
According to new reporting from KTAR News, Lake Powell sat at 3,533 feet on Tuesday. That’s 17 feet above the all-time low it hit in mid-September, thanks to an unusually wet October and early November. Meanwhile, Lake Mead, which bottomed out at its own record low on Oct. 22, has climbed two feet in under two weeks.
How Close We Came…