Belton Lake water level

What this level means

Readings come from station 08102000 (Belton Lk nr Belton, TX). Full pool is 594.0 ft. The last value stored here, 592.97 ft, is from 2026-09-09. Over the record shown on the level page the gauge has moved between 592.75 ft and 596.50 ft (low on 2026-04-01, high on 2026-06-08). The Corps of Engineers puts the top of the flood pool at 631.0 ft. That put the reservoir at 97% of its conservation capacity. Conservation capacity is 432,631 acre-feet. The top of the dam sits at 662.0 ft. Check the reading the morning you go if your plan depends on a specific ramp.

How this reading is taken

USGS gauge 08102000 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 Belton Lake is 594.0 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.