Lake Meredith water level

What this level means

Station 07227900, Lk Meredith nr Sanford, TX, publishes the water surface elevation used here. The last value stored here, 2,889.12 ft, is from 2026-09-09. The Corps of Engineers puts the top of the flood pool at 2,965.0 ft. Conservation capacity is 500,000 acre-feet. The top of the dam sits at 3,011.0 ft. Over the record shown on the level page the gauge has moved between 2,889.16 ft and 2,893.49 ft (low on 2026-09-08, high on 2025-09-19). That put the reservoir at 41% of its conservation capacity. Full pool is 2,936.5 ft. A low pool exposes stumps and mud in the shallow arms of the lake.

How this reading is taken

USGS gauge 07227900 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 Lake Meredith is 2,936.5 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.