Current conditions across the Project
The basin as it stands today.
The lake, the river at Keno, the snow and rain behind them, and the conditions the listed species are meeting. Readings come straight from the federal monitors and refresh each time the page loads.
For the water year and irrigation season, see the Water Year and Irrigation Season Tracker. For the long record, see Water Management: A Historical Perspective.
Live conditions across the Project
Read straight from the federal monitors, refreshed each time this page loads. Every tile opens its official source.
The supply, and the lake it sits in
The year’s water arrives as mountain snow, melts into Upper Klamath Lake, and is drawn down through the season. The lake is also the home water of the c’waam and koptu — so how full it runs is both a supply question and a habitat one.
The fish, in the water they live in
Two protected species, two different waters. Salmon are an introduced presence downriver, meeting the conditions the Project passes at Keno; the c’waam and koptu live in the lake above, adapted to summers that would harm salmon. The colour flags rate each live reading against standard salmon thresholds — they apply to salmon only.
The year’s drought & wildfire
The conditions the whole basin is managing against. The Drought Monitor updates each Thursday; the Windy map is live.
Open the current Drought Monitor at Drought.gov ↗
Klamath County conditions ↗
The dashed line is the maximum available over the Keno reef without the Project — this year’s measured inflow routed through the two natural lakes and over their rock reefs, by the same model used for the historical record. The method, its parameters, and what it does and does not include are set out on the Water page.
Right of the divider, projected to 30 September: net inflow held at its recent average, evaporation tapering into autumn, and Keno held at the 750 cfs and 790 cfs figures used in this year’s operating projection, with a 7,000 acre-foot ceremonial release.
What this model assumes. The reconstruction has to start the two natural lakes somewhere on 1 October. Reclamation’s own gage sheets settle the upper lake: it stood at 4,140.30 ft entering the wet year of 1916–17 and 4,140.25 ft entering the dry year of 1917–18 — the reef holds the autumn level near 4,140.25 whatever the preceding year was like. The lower lake is less well constrained. Starting levels set how much carried-over storage is available to release, and the annual totals are sensitive to them, so the cumulative comparison of actual against without-Project is not published here.
Every reading, at its official monitor
Live conditions read from USGS and Open-Meteo. Supply, accountability, and without-Project figures from K.I.D.’s daily tracking file. Draft — under District and legal review.