Quote Originally Posted by Downwind
Do you have any idea why they are keeping the water levels down this year? Lake has been around 1/2 foot above winter pool most of the summer.
If so ... Summer Pool and Winter Pool are only two feet of water apart. The lake is a flood control lake, but not a power generating one, so the water levels are determined by how much rain comes down in the drainage area surrounding the lake. We haven't had much rain in that area, so the lake levels are just a reflection of that.

Use this chart to keep track of current conditions :

http://www.lrl.usace.army.mil/wc/reports/lkreport.html

And check this chart for past conditions :

http://www.lrl.usace.army.mil/wc/res...plots/tvl.html

Looking at the past several months levels, it shows that the lake has only been below normal levels (for the time frame) during the late Spring to Summer (now) period ... again, most likely due to the ongoing drought conditions.
The Salt River is not a heavy flow waterway, under normal conditions .... and the dam outflow is only running at a trickle. All it would take, to put the water level up into the shoreline trees ... would be a 1" rain, in one day, over the drainage basin area.

(you can get to the second chart, by clicking on the blue number under "Today's Pool Feet" - for Taylorsville Lake's current water level. Just thought I'd mention this, so you don't have to store both chart addresses)

.... cp