Reservoir Volumes and Storage for Drought Monitoring as of September 2014
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Water System |
Reservoir |
Percent Full* |
Days of Storage** |
City of Frostburg |
Piney |
**** |
*** |
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City of Cumberland |
Lake Gordon |
**** |
**** |
Lake Koon |
**** |
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|
City of Baltimore
|
Liberty |
96% |
357 |
Loch Raven |
98% |
Prettyboy |
99% |
Total |
97% |
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|
|
|
WSSC |
Triadelphia Reservoir |
82% |
133 |
Rocky Gorge/Duckett |
Seneca Creek Reserve |
99% |
NA |
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All Potomac River Plants |
Jennings-Randolph Reserve*** |
100% |
NA |
* Percent Full is the ratio of current volume to the maximum usable volume in each reservoir at the end of the month.
** Days of Storage is the amount of days it would take to use current volume of reservoir (w/o recharge) based on average raw water withdrawals from similar time frame from previous two years.
*** Percent full for Jennings-Randolph Reservoir is based on alloted amount of water in reservoir used to supplement Potomac River flow for drinking water purposes.
**** Storage is not available as of 2014-10-07, but Cumberland had 400 days of storage at the end of July and Frostburg had 367 days of storage at the end of August
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Drought Home
Drought Coordinators
For More Information
Please contact the Water Supply Program at
WATER.SUPPLY@maryland.gov or 410-537-3702