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San Carlos Lake Going Up
OneBlade:
Copied and pasted from "Growing up in Globe" Facebook post by John Parsons:
It just keeps getting better...
San Carlos Lake is putting on a Show this season. The lake keeps going up and UP! The Lake has risen an eye-popping 79 feet since it was bone dry at Noon May 20, 2022. It has risen 32 feet since the beginning of the "Water Year" October 1st and yet another 12 feet just since the stroke of midnight on New Year's.
Currently, San Carlos Lake holds 326,700 acre feet. At Noon on May 20, 2022, it held 1.34 acre feet. According to the Gila Water Commission Office in Safford, San Carlos Lake is now capable of holding 861,540 acre feet. So today's level means the Lake is 37.9% full, a level not seen in years.
While The Gila River provides the lion's share of San Carlos Lake's water, the San Carlos River itself has been working hard to help bring up the Lake, too. On January 16-17, The San Carlos River had identical twin peaks of 11,300 cubic feet per second (cfs) almost exactly 24 hours apart!.
The 11,300 cfs flows rank in the top 30% of flows recorded in the past 85 years.
The first picture is the back of a postcard from the 1930s when it possibly was near full
Fishless:
To bad there are probably no game fish left in the lake and you can bet San Carlos irrigation dist will be selling the water all year
ffp1711:
Bruce, Last time there was a "total fish kill"....3 years later, a buddy and I caught limits of 11-12" crappie in 3 hours one day. There just has to be a few crappie leftover and the TRIBE needs to LEAVE the water in it for them to reproduce like crazy. One can always hope.....
Fishless:
interesting we can only hope, buddy that hunts there on the res says no one sells the permits off site you have to go to the game and fish office there in the area (don't know if it is true or not?)
apenland01:
The young lady at the SCG&F shop on the highway said you could only get a pass from there, although that was last year when the water was low...
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