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Seminoe Reservoir

Seminoe Reservoir is a federal reservoir operated by the United States Bureau of Reclamation in its Great Plains region, with published operating records from 1945.

Storage recordSeminoe Reservoir Dam and Powerplant

Storage now, against this reservoir's own record

308.62 Mm³
Stored, September 2026
1st
Percentile among 81 Seps on record
-60.0%
Against the Sep 1991–2020 average
-35.5%
Change over the 12 months to 2026-09

Storage in September 2026 was lower than almost every other Sep on record, ranked against 81 other Seps held for this reservoir.

Storage, 1945–2026

Monthly mean storage
972 monthly values, 1945 to 2026
Monthly mean storageMonthly mean storage: Seminoe Reservoir in Mm³, from 1945.75 to 2026.6666666666667.05001,0001,500Mm³1945.751955.91666666666671966.08333333333331976.251986.41666666666671996.58333333333332006.752016.9166666666667Year

Monthly means of the publisher's daily record. Volume, not percentage of capacity — see below for why.

What the shaded periods are (0 events)

Not shown on this chart

  • The 1976 drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
  • The 2022 drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
  • Yorkshire drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
  • Cantareira water crisis, São Paulo — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
  • Cape Town Day Zero — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
  • European drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
View the data behind this chart
240 of 972 periods, evenly spaced across the record. Every value is in the download and the API; a table of all 972 would be longer than this page and unusable with a screen reader.
PeriodSeminoe Reservoir (Mm³)
October 1945891
February 1946704
June 1946943
October 1946652
February 1947443
June 1947971
October 19471,039
February 1948804
July 19481,130
November 1948806
March 1949654
July 19491,263
November 1949975
March 1950725
July 19501,097
November 1950851
March 1951662
July 19511,250
November 19511,084
March 1952725
July 19521,277
November 1952962
March 1953740
July 1953922
December 1953436
April 1954302
August 1954439
December 1954419
April 1955403
August 1955563
December 1955434
April 1956344
August 1956595
December 1956364
April 1957312
August 19571,263
December 1957890
April 1958682
August 19581,167
December 19581,111
May 1959647
September 1959701
January 1960462
May 1960378
September 1960436
January 1961149
May 1961101
September 1961313
January 1962228
May 1962536
September 1962939
January 1963442
May 1963528
September 1963633
January 1964396
May 1964167
October 1964397
February 1965221
June 1965473
October 1965869
February 1966538
June 1966642
October 1966386
February 1967192
June 1967343
October 1967583
February 1968325
June 1968733
October 1968955
February 1969554
June 1969833
October 1969775
March 1970350
July 19701,170
November 1970954
March 1971447
July 19711,196
November 19711,022
March 1972751
July 19721,166
November 1972984
March 1973611
July 19731,215
November 19731,086
March 1974756
July 19741,192
November 1974942
March 1975571
August 19751,183
December 1975893
April 1976685
August 19761,109
December 1976783
April 1977622
August 1977791
December 1977571
April 1978310
August 19781,056
December 1978797
April 1979425
August 19791,106
December 1979828
April 1980425
August 19801,152
January 1981812
May 1981583
September 1981696
January 1982435
May 1982306
September 19821,075
January 1983825
May 1983749
September 19831,145
January 19841,010
May 1984946
September 19841,159
January 19851,065
May 19851,101
September 19851,014
January 1986820
June 19861,063
October 1986994
February 1987796
June 19871,043
October 1987791
February 1988549
June 1988989
October 1988932
February 1989589
June 1989661
October 1989589
February 1990471
June 1990545
October 1990523
February 1991433
June 1991718
November 1991514
March 1992478
July 1992483
November 1992312
March 1993276
July 1993966
November 1993758
March 1994685
July 1994737
November 1994402
March 1995372
July 19951,179
November 19951,015
March 1996863
July 19961,114
November 1996971
April 1997760
August 19971,098
December 19971,094
April 1998892
August 19981,148
December 1998955
April 1999851
August 19991,165
December 19991,056
April 2000909
August 20001,103
December 2000907
April 2001810
August 2001840
December 2001650
April 2002530
September 2002387
January 2003278
May 2003312
September 2003423
January 2004348
May 2004422
September 2004341
January 2005331
May 2005495
September 2005564
January 2006507
May 2006515
September 2006335
January 2007336
May 2007460
September 2007289
February 2008234
June 2008671
October 2008653
February 2009625
June 20091,063
October 2009846
February 2010837
June 20101,170
October 20101,041
February 20111,020
June 2011752
October 20111,071
February 20121,058
June 2012971
October 2012682
February 2013606
July 2013563
November 2013410
March 2014394
July 2014957
November 2014864
March 2015893
July 20151,112
November 2015964
March 2016869
July 20161,095
November 2016960
March 2017928
July 20171,087
November 20171,004
March 2018990
July 2018935
December 2018785
April 2019784
August 20191,071
December 2019989
April 2020870
August 2020883
December 2020758
April 2021695
August 2021450
December 2021374
April 2022385
August 2022661
December 2022567
April 2023554
August 2023947
December 2023807
May 2024819
September 2024700
January 2025616
May 2025585
September 2025478
January 2026416
May 2026436
September 2026309

The reservoir's year

Seasonal storage profile
Each calendar month's reference average, against the most recent year
Seasonal storage profileSeasonal storage profile: 1991–2020 average, Most recent 12 months in Mm³, from 1 to 12.02505007501,000Mm³123456789101112Month1991–2020 average 1: 694 Mm³1991–2020 average 2: 677 Mm³1991–2020 average 3: 660 Mm³1991–2020 average 4: 658 Mm³1991–2020 average 5: 703 Mm³1991–2020 average 6: 873 Mm³1991–2020 average 7: 900 Mm³1991–2020 average 8: 831 Mm³1991–2020 average 9: 772 Mm³1991–2020 average 10: 747 Mm³1991–2020 average 11: 736 Mm³1991–2020 average 12: 720 Mm³Most recent 12 months 1: 416 Mm³Most recent 12 months 2: 402 Mm³Most recent 12 months 3: 397 Mm³Most recent 12 months 4: 411 Mm³Most recent 12 months 5: 436 Mm³Most recent 12 months 6: 472 Mm³Most recent 12 months 7: 430 Mm³Most recent 12 months 8: 351 Mm³Most recent 12 months 9: 309 Mm³Most recent 12 months 10: 458 Mm³Most recent 12 months 11: 443 Mm³Most recent 12 months 12: 427 Mm³
  • 1991–2020 average
  • Most recent 12 months

Twelve separate averages, one per calendar month. A January average describes Januaries only. Months are plotted 1–12.

View the data behind this chart
Underlying data
Period1991–2020 average (Mm³)Most recent 12 months (Mm³)
Jan694416
Feb677402
Mar660397
Apr658411
May703436
Jun873472
Jul900430
Aug831351
Sep772309
Oct747458
Nov736443
Dec720427

Why this page shows a volume and not a percentage

Water level

Monthly mean water surface elevation
972 monthly values
Monthly mean water surface elevationMonthly mean water surface elevation: Seminoe Reservoir in m, from 1945.75 to 2026.6666666666667.1,9001,9101,9201,9301,940m1945.751955.91666666666671966.08333333333331976.251986.41666666666671996.58333333333332006.752016.9166666666667Year

An elevation above a datum, not a depth of water and not a distance below the crest. Levels at different reservoirs are measured against different datums and must not be read against one another; this line is comparable only with its own history. Elevation and volume are not proportional either — a metre near the bottom of a reservoir holds far less water than a metre near the top, because the surface area grows with height.

What the shaded periods are (0 events)

Not shown on this chart

  • The 1976 drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
  • The 2022 drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
  • Yorkshire drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
  • Cantareira water crisis, São Paulo — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
  • Cape Town Day Zero — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
  • European drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
View the data behind this chart
240 of 972 periods, evenly spaced across the record. Every value is in the download and the API; a table of all 972 would be longer than this page and unusable with a screen reader.
PeriodSeminoe Reservoir (m)
1945.751,932
1946.08333333333331,929
1946.41666666666671,933
1946.751,928
1947.08333333333331,923
1947.41666666666671,934
1947.751,935
1948.08333333333331,931
1948.51,936
1948.83333333333331,931
1949.16666666666671,928
1949.51,938
1949.83333333333331,934
1950.16666666666671,929
1950.51,935
1950.83333333333331,932
1951.16666666666671,928
1951.51,937
1951.83333333333331,935
1952.16666666666671,929
1952.51,938
1952.83333333333331,933
1953.16666666666671,930
1953.51,933
1953.91666666666671,923
1954.251,919
1954.58333333333331,923
1954.91666666666671,923
1955.251,922
1955.58333333333331,926
1955.91666666666671,923
1956.251,920
1956.58333333333331,927
1956.91666666666671,921
1957.251,919
1957.58333333333331,938
1957.91666666666671,933
1958.251,929
1958.58333333333331,937
1958.91666666666671,936
1959.33333333333331,928
1959.66666666666671,929
19601,924
1960.33333333333331,922
1960.66666666666671,923
19611,912
1961.33333333333331,909
1961.66666666666671,919
19621,916
1962.33333333333331,926
1962.66666666666671,933
19631,923
1963.33333333333331,926
1963.66666666666671,928
19641,922
1964.33333333333331,913
1964.751,922
1965.08333333333331,916
1965.41666666666671,924
1965.751,932
1966.08333333333331,926
1966.41666666666671,928
1966.751,922
1967.08333333333331,914
1967.41666666666671,920
1967.751,927
1968.08333333333331,920
1968.41666666666671,930
1968.751,934
1969.08333333333331,926
1969.41666666666671,932
1969.751,931
1970.16666666666671,921
1970.51,937
1970.83333333333331,934
1971.16666666666671,924
1971.51,937
1971.83333333333331,935
1972.16666666666671,930
1972.51,937
1972.83333333333331,934
1973.16666666666671,927
1973.51,937
1973.83333333333331,936
1974.16666666666671,930
1974.51,937
1974.83333333333331,933
1975.16666666666671,927
1975.58333333333331,937
1975.91666666666671,933
1976.251,929
1976.58333333333331,936
1976.91666666666671,931
1977.251,928
1977.58333333333331,931
1977.91666666666671,926
1978.251,919
1978.58333333333331,935
1978.91666666666671,931
1979.251,923
1979.58333333333331,936
1979.91666666666671,932
1980.251,923
1980.58333333333331,936
19811,931
1981.33333333333331,927
1981.66666666666671,929
19821,923
1982.33333333333331,919
1982.66666666666671,935
19831,931
1983.33333333333331,930
1983.66666666666671,936
19841,934
1984.33333333333331,933
1984.66666666666671,936
19851,935
1985.33333333333331,936
1985.66666666666671,934
19861,931
1986.41666666666671,935
1986.751,934
1987.08333333333331,931
1987.41666666666671,935
1987.751,931
1988.08333333333331,926
1988.41666666666671,934
1988.751,933
1989.08333333333331,927
1989.41666666666671,928
1989.751,927
1990.08333333333331,924
1990.41666666666671,926
1990.751,925
1991.08333333333331,923
1991.41666666666671,929
1991.83333333333331,925
1992.16666666666671,924
1992.51,924
1992.83333333333331,919
1993.16666666666671,918
1993.51,934
1993.83333333333331,930
1994.16666666666671,929
1994.51,930
1994.83333333333331,922
1995.16666666666671,921
1995.51,937
1995.83333333333331,934
1996.16666666666671,932
1996.51,936
1996.83333333333331,934
1997.251,930
1997.58333333333331,936
1997.91666666666671,936
1998.251,933
1998.58333333333331,936
1998.91666666666671,934
1999.251,932
1999.58333333333331,936
1999.91666666666671,935
2000.251,933
2000.58333333333331,936
2000.91666666666671,933
2001.251,931
2001.58333333333331,932
2001.91666666666671,928
2002.251,926
2002.66666666666671,922
20031,918
2003.33333333333331,919
2003.66666666666671,923
20041,920
2004.33333333333331,923
2004.66666666666671,920
20051,920
2005.33333333333331,925
2005.66666666666671,926
20061,925
2006.33333333333331,925
2006.66666666666671,920
20071,920
2007.33333333333331,924
2007.66666666666671,918
2008.08333333333331,916
2008.41666666666671,929
2008.751,928
2009.08333333333331,928
2009.41666666666671,935
2009.751,932
2010.08333333333331,932
2010.41666666666671,937
2010.751,935
2011.08333333333331,935
2011.41666666666671,930
2011.751,935
2012.08333333333331,935
2012.41666666666671,934
2012.751,929
2013.08333333333331,927
2013.51,926
2013.83333333333331,922
2014.16666666666671,922
2014.51,934
2014.83333333333331,932
2015.16666666666671,933
2015.51,936
2015.83333333333331,934
2016.16666666666671,932
2016.51,936
2016.83333333333331,934
2017.16666666666671,933
2017.51,935
2017.83333333333331,934
2018.16666666666671,934
2018.51,933
2018.91666666666671,931
2019.251,931
2019.58333333333331,935
2019.91666666666671,934
2020.251,932
2020.58333333333331,932
2020.91666666666671,930
2021.251,929
2021.58333333333331,923
2021.91666666666671,921
2022.251,922
2022.58333333333331,928
2022.91666666666671,926
2023.251,926
2023.58333333333331,933
2023.91666666666671,931
2024.33333333333331,931
2024.66666666666671,929
20251,927
2025.33333333333331,927
2025.66666666666671,924
20261,923
2026.33333333333331,923
2026.66666666666671,919

Rate and persistence

-14.14 Mm³
Mean drawdown per month over 12 months
12 of 24
Recent months below the 20th percentile for their own month

Rates are computed only across an unbroken run of months, so a rate is never divided by a period in which some of the change was not observed. Percentile counts compare each month with the same calendar month in every other year held.

Location

Seminoe Reservoir
Gauge location
Seminoe ReservoirSeminoe Reservoir — 308.62 Mm³Seminoe Reservoir — 308.62 Mm³

About this data

About this data

Everything below is a property of the data rather than a rating of it. There is deliberately no single confidence score: how much a gap matters depends on what you are about to do with the series, and only you know that.

Source
United States Bureau of Reclamation — Reservoir operations and Colorado River data · US Government work — public domain
How the values came to existMeasured
Period held1945–2026
Completeness98.8% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps
  • Storage is a managed quantity. A falling line can be a rule curve, a scheduled release or a transfer to another system rather than a shortage of water, and nothing here distinguishes them.
  • No capacity figure on a stated basis is held for this reservoir, so no percentage of capacity is computed.
Continuity99% of the months between 1945 and 2026 are held. Monthly means of the publisher's own daily record.
Last read from the publisher2026-10-01
RedistributionPermitted by the upstream licences
Commercial reusePermitted by the upstream licences. No Hydrionis access tier can widen this.
MethodologyHow this was produced

Use this data

Use this data

No bulk download is offered here, which is a licence position rather than a product one: at least one contributing publisher does not permit redistribution. The values can be read on the page, cited, and pointed to at source.

Attribution and citation

Suggested citation for Hydrionis

Hydrionis (2026), Seminoe Reservoir reservoir records, accessed 2026-10-05, hydrionis.com/reservoirs/reservoir-usbr-467/

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Where this comes from

972 monthly observations 1945–2026 Mm³
Spatially aggregatedHigh confidenceSeptember 2026

Source: USBR — Reservoir operations and Colorado River data, RISE catalogue item 732. Licence: Open.

Method: Monthly mean of the daily values published by the Bureau of Reclamation in acre-feet, converted to Mm³. Months with fewer than 20 days of record are not published rather than averaged from a partial month.

Stored as a volume and not as a share of capacity: the operator publishes what is in the reservoir but not what it holds when full, so a percentage cannot be computed without inventing the denominator.

Retrieved 1 October 2026.

Monthly mean of the daily values published by the Bureau of Reclamation in acre-feet, converted to Mm³. Months with fewer than 20 days of record are not published rather than averaged from a partial month.

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