Cheney Reservoir water level

What this level means

Station 07144790, CHENEY RE NR CHENEY, KS, publishes the water surface elevation used here. The last value stored here, 1,420.35 ft, is from 2026-09-09. The top of the dam sits at 1,454.0 ft. Over the record shown on the level page the gauge has moved between 1,420.38 ft and 1,425.71 ft (low on 2026-09-08, high on 2026-06-30). The Corps of Engineers puts the top of the flood pool at 1,429.0 ft. The conservation pool tops out at 1,421.6 ft. A low pool exposes stumps and mud in the shallow arms of the lake.

How this reading is taken

USGS gauge 07144790 measures the water surface and publishes the value continuously. This page stores the latest reading at build time and refreshes the record daily, so the figure above is a real measurement rather than a model or an estimate.

Full pool for Cheney Reservoir is 1,421.6 ft, so the gap between the reading and that number is what the reservoir is missing.

Elevations are given in feet above the gauge datum used by the operating agency. Two lakes are only comparable with each other through how full they are, not through their raw elevation, because each dam sits at a different height.