Inks Lake: 56.9% full as of 2025-10-17

The elevation-storage rating curve used to produce the storage hydrograph is made of two segments: (1) the segment up to the conservation pool top (below the red line) is based on measured data, and (2) the segment in the flood pool (above the red line) is an extrapolation from the first segment and shouldn't be relied upon for flood storage information.

Historical Data

Date Percent Full Mean Water Level
(ft)
Reservoir Storage
(acre-ft)
Conservation Storage
(acre-ft)
Conservation Capacity
(acre-ft)
Surface Area
(acres)
Today 2025-10-17 56.9 879.13 8,101 7,818 13,729 532
Yesterday 2025-10-16 57.0 879.14 8,106 7,823 13,729 532
2 days ago 2025-10-15 57.0 879.15 8,111 7,828 13,729 532
1 week ago 2025-10-10 57.3 879.23 8,154 7,871 13,729 535
1 month ago 2025-09-17 95.0 887.14 13,328 13,045 13,729 784
3 months ago 2025-07-17 96.6 887.41 13,541 13,258 13,729 793
6 months ago 2025-04-17 94.6 887.07 13,273 12,990 13,729 780
1 year ago 2024-10-17 95.3 887.19 13,367 13,084 13,729 790
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Percent Full is based on Conservation Storage and Conservation Capacity and doesn't account for storage in flood pool.

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   Values above, including today's are averaged conditions. For near real-time instantaneous water level, see table below or the interactive map viewer.

Most Recent Instantaneous Water Level

Date/time Water Level
(ft)
Conservation Pool Elevation
(ft)
Height Above Conservation Pool
(ft)
Most recent 2025-10-17 20:00 879.12 888.00 -8.88
1 hour prior 2025-10-17 19:00 879.12 888.00 -8.88
2 hours prior 2025-10-17 18:00 879.11 888.00 -8.89
6 hours prior 2025-10-17 14:00 879.14 888.00 -8.86
12 hours prior 2025-10-17 08:00 879.14 888.00 -8.86
24 hours prior 2025-10-16 20:00 879.14 888.00 -8.86
48 hours prior 2025-10-15 20:00 879.14 888.00 -8.86
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Data is provisional and subject to revision.

Additional Information

Impoundment date 1938-01-01
Vertical datum NAVD88 +0.31
Dead pool elevation 844.50 ft above NAVD88 +0.31
Emergency spillway crest elevation 888.32 ft above NAVD88 +0.31
Top of dam elevation 922.00 ft above NAVD88 +0.31
Conservation pool elevation 888.00 ft above NAVD88 +0.31
Data download (CSV) period of record, last one year, last 30 days

Elevation-Area-Capacity Curves

2007-04-01 (source: TWDB) : GIS Data
2021-08-01 (source: TWDB) : GIS Data
Data Source LCRA:1999

Lake Location