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Arkansas · USACE Little Rock District (SWL)

Beaver Lake water level

Today's reading against full pool and Beaver Lake's own seasonal history.

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FULL POOL 1115 1120
Elevation, feet (project datum (NGVD29-era))

as of October 1, 2026

1113.29 ft project datum (NGVD29-era)

level 7.1 ft below full pool — typical for early October

Reading comes straight from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Access to Water data (USACE lake gauge) and updates live when you load this page.

Is Beaver Lake full?

Not quite — 7.1 ft below full pool as of October 1, 2026

How full is Beaver Lake? Not as a percentage: no storage figure comes through with this gauge reading, and a share of capacity worked out from the elevation alone would be a guess — how much water a reservoir holds at a given level is a curve only the operator's own capacity table knows. Feet from full pool is what the operator publishes, and it is the figure above.

Beaver Lake through the year

The band is the lake's own normal: where the level has run on each calendar day, 1990–2026. The summer drawdown — and how this year sits in it — shows up without reading a single number.

full pool 1110 1115 1120 1125 1130 JFMAMJJASOND
Median and normal range by day of year, 1990–2026 · elevation, feet (project datum (NGVD29-era))

This year vs the years that matter

This year's trace against last year and the driest and wettest years on record — the drought-context question every lake regular asks.

full pool 1110 1120 1130 JFMAMJJASOND
  • 2026 (this year)
  • 2025 (last year)
  • 2019 (wettest on record)
  • 2006 (driest on record)

Full pool, datum, and the gauge

"Full pool" here means the conservation pool — the level the lake is designed to hold for water supply and recreation, not the flood-control space above it. The full explainer covers flood pool and dead pool too.

Full pool 1120.43 ft project datum (NGVD29-era) · per USACE Little Rock District (SWL) full-pool reference
Conservation capacity 936,500 acre-feet · per USACE Little Rock District (SWL) capacity reference
Gauge USACE lake gauge · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Access to Water data
Datum project datum (NGVD29-era) — Full pool = top of power pool 1120.43; flood pool 1130.
Last verified August 15, 2026

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Quick answers

What is the lake level for Beaver Lake today?

Beaver Lake is at 1113.29 ft (project datum (NGVD29-era)) as of October 1, 2026 — 7.1 ft below full pool — typical for early October.

Is Beaver Lake full?

Not quite — at 1113.29 ft on October 1, 2026, Beaver Lake is 7.1 ft below its full pool of 1120.43 ft (project datum (NGVD29-era)).

How full is Beaver Lake?

Not as a percentage: no storage figure comes through with this gauge reading, and a share of capacity worked out from the elevation alone would be a guess — how much water a reservoir holds at a given level is a curve only the operator's own capacity table knows. Feet from full pool is what the operator publishes, and it is the figure above.

What is full pool for Beaver Lake?

Full pool (the conservation pool) for Beaver Lake is 1120.43 ft project datum (NGVD29-era), per USACE Little Rock District (SWL) full-pool reference. Levels above it use flood storage; levels below it are drawdown.