Reservoir · Kansas · United States · USACE CWMS
El Dorado Lake
85.9% full
Capacity
199.74 hm³
Volume stored
172 hm³
Vs month average
98% of normal
Coordinates
37.846°N, 96.822°W
Last updated
2026-10-29
Current fill
85.9%vs 7 days ago
-0.5 pplosing
vs 1 year ago
N/A7-day trend
→stable
Drought context
Storage vs October average
98%of normal
85.9% full on 2026-10-29, against an average of 87.5% for October across 2 years of readings (-1.6 points).
Drought Monitor at this site · 27 October 2026
D1moderate drought
The ground at El Dorado Lake's coordinates falls inside the D1 area of the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor map. That describes local conditions — rainfall, soil moisture, streamflow — not the reservoir's storage. Kansas drought figures →
Data source: USACE CWMS — US Army Corps of Engineers — daily reservoir storage volume. Capacity is the design (normal full-pool) capacity from the US National Inventory of Dams (NID); fill % = current volume ÷ design capacity. Last reading: 2026-10-29.
Catchment Weather
Past 30 days + 14-day forecast · Open-Meteo
Satellite imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics. Map: Esri, HERE, Garmin, © OpenStreetMap contributors. 37.846°N, 96.822°W · Open in Google Maps
About El Dorado Lake
As of October 29, 2026, El Dorado Lake is filled to 85.9% of its total capacity, holding 171.65 hm³ of water out of a maximum 199.74 hm³. At this level the reservoir is high.
Over the most recent week on record the fill level has held broadly steady (-0.5 pp).
Across the readings we hold for El Dorado Lake — 319 data points between October 30, 2021 and October 29, 2026 — the level has ranged from a low of 85.9% (October 28, 2026) to a high of 104.1% (May 16, 2022). On average the reservoir is fullest around May and at its lowest around October.
It is operated by USACE primarily for multiple purposes. It is at 37.846°N, 96.822°W.
Key facts
- Current fill level
- 85.9% of total capacity
- Water stored
- 171.65 hm³
- Total capacity
- 199.74 hm³
- 7-day change
- ▼ 0.5 pp
- Primary use
- Multipurpose
- Operator
- USACE
- Coordinates
- 37.846°N, 96.822°W
- Last updated
- October 29, 2026
Recent readings
| Date | Fill level | Volume (hm³) |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Oct 2026 | 85.9% | 171.65 |
| 28 Oct 2026 | 85.9% | 171.55 |
| 27 Oct 2026 | 86.0% | 171.75 |
| 26 Oct 2026 | 86.1% | 171.94 |
| 25 Oct 2026 | 86.1% | 172.03 |
| 24 Oct 2026 | 86.2% | 172.13 |
| 23 Oct 2026 | 86.2% | 172.22 |
| 22 Oct 2026 | 86.4% | 172.51 |
| 21 Oct 2026 | 86.4% | 172.6 |
| 20 Oct 2026 | 86.5% | 172.7 |
| 19 Oct 2026 | 86.6% | 172.89 |
| 18 Oct 2026 | 86.6% | 172.98 |