Reservoir Volumes and Storage for Drought Monitoring as of August 2014
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Water System |
Reservoir |
Percent Full* |
Days of Storage** |
City of Frostburg |
Piney |
99% |
567 |
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City of Cumberland |
Lake Gordon |
**** |
**** |
Lake Koon |
**** |
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City of Baltimore
|
Liberty |
99% |
352 |
Loch Raven |
100% |
Prettyboy |
99% |
Total |
99% |
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|
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WSSC |
Triadelphia Reservoir |
92% |
151 |
Rocky Gorge/Duckett |
Seneca Creek Reserve |
98% |
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.
**** Information not available as of 2014-09-23, but Cumberland had 400 days of storage as of 2014-07-28
Related Topics
Drought Home
Drought Coordinators
For More Information
Please contact the Water Supply Program at
WATER.SUPPLY@maryland.gov or 410-537-3702