New Photographic Evidence of the Continuing Lake Powell Water Fiasco
A year ago, Judy Greenfield and I visited Warm Creek Bay, an arm of Lake Powell in Utah. We observed the dramatic decline in the lake’s water level since the mid-1980s. My story of the lake’s decline and photos were published in the Canyon Country Zephyr and are now posted on this blog (“A First Hand Look at Drought in the Colorado River Basin”, posted January 27, 2022). In the past year, the lake level has declined another 40 vertical feet. Last week, we revisited Warm Creek Bay and saw that the shoreline of Warm Creek Bay has retreated another mile. Here is a southeasterly view of Warm Creek Bay on April 19, 2021. And here is roughly the same view one year later (April 28, 2022). All the green and brown grassy areas and beige muddy areas were covered by water last year. Near the top right corner of the photo, you can barely see the upper end of the present bay which appears as a small light patch below a brown cliff. Map shows two locations visited in April 2022