Water level
Pactola Reservoir water level
Pactola Reservoir is at 58.60 ft as of Sep 9, 2026. Live readings, trend, history and what the level means for swimming and boat ramps.
Recent readings
Daily values from USGS gauge 06411000.
What this level means
Station 06411000, PACTOLA RESERVOIR NEAR SILVER CITY SD, publishes the water surface elevation used here. The last value stored here, 58.60 ft, is from 2026-09-09. A low pool exposes stumps and mud in the shallow arms of the lake.
How this reading is taken
USGS gauge 06411000 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.
No operating agency publishes a full pool elevation for Pactola Reservoir that we can cite, so this page shows the reading and its trend without a percentage.
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.
Water level questions
What is the current water level at Pactola Reservoir?
The latest reading is 58.60 ft, from USGS gauge 06411000.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of these public sources.