DELICATE WATER ZONE · D2 — Severe drought over a member dam
Corpus Christi, Texas
The city's drought stages key off the COMBINED storage of Choke Canyon and Lake Corpus Christi — and Choke Canyon has fallen to the low twenties in percent. Lake Texana water arrives by the Mary Rhodes Pipeline and has carried the city while the Nueces lakes fell; an industrial seawater desalination plant is under construction as the next straw.
The reservoirs this zone drinks from
| Reservoir | % full | Storage | Elevation | 30-day trend | Drought at the dam |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Choke Canyon Reservoir TX | 22.4% | 148,709 af | 191.4 ft | -352 af/day | D2 — Severe drought |
| Lake Corpus Christi TX | 85.0% | 217,749 af | 92.0 ft | +3,886 af/day | D1 — Moderate drought |
| Lake Texana TX | 84.5% | 134,386 af | 41.5 ft | -449 af/day | D0 — Abnormally dry |
af = acre-feet; a dash means the measure is not published for that reservoir. Each name links to the reservoir's full page — gauge, record, snowpack and sources.
Zone prose is curated by this desk with its sourcing inline; the numbers are the member reservoirs' own operators', on the bases named on each reservoir's page. Back to the national desk.