Reservoir · Nebraska · United States · USACE CWMS
Salt Creek Dam 18
93.3% full
Capacity
32.06 hm³
Volume stored
30 hm³
Vs month average
97% of normal
Coordinates
40.971°N, 96.853°W
Last updated
2026-10-28
Current fill
93.3%vs 7 days ago
-1.1 pplosing
vs 1 year ago
N/A7-day trend
↓falling
Drought context
Storage vs October average
97%of normal
93.3% full on 2026-10-28, against an average of 96.5% for October across 2 years of readings (-3.2 points).
Drought Monitor at this site · 20 October 2026
Nonenot in a drought category
Salt Creek Dam 18's coordinates fall outside every category on the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor map. That describes local conditions — rainfall, soil moisture, streamflow — not the reservoir's storage. Nebraska 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: 2026-10-28.
Catchment Weather
Past 30 days + 14-day forecast · Open-Meteo
Satellite imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics. Map: Esri, HERE, Garmin, © OpenStreetMap contributors. 40.971°N, 96.853°W · Open in Google Maps
About Salt Creek Dam 18
As of October 28, 2026, Salt Creek Dam 18 is filled to 93.3% of its total capacity, holding 29.91 hm³ of water out of a maximum 32.06 hm³. At this level the reservoir is high.
Over the most recent week on record the fill level has fallen by 1.1 percentage points.
Across the readings we hold for Salt Creek Dam 18 — 328 data points between October 29, 2021 and October 28, 2026 — the level has ranged from a low of 88.1% (August 9, 2026) to a high of 104.5% (October 3, 2026). On average the reservoir is fullest around October and at its lowest around August.
It is operated by USACE primarily for multiple purposes. It is at 40.971°N, 96.853°W.
Key facts
- Current fill level
- 93.3% of total capacity
- Water stored
- 29.91 hm³
- Total capacity
- 32.06 hm³
- 7-day change
- ▼ 1.1 pp
- Primary use
- Multipurpose
- Operator
- USACE
- Coordinates
- 40.971°N, 96.853°W
- Last updated
- October 28, 2026
Recent readings
| Date | Fill level | Volume (hm³) |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Oct 2026 | 93.3% | 29.91 |
| 27 Oct 2026 | 93.3% | 29.91 |
| 26 Oct 2026 | 93.6% | 30 |
| 25 Oct 2026 | 93.6% | 30.02 |
| 24 Oct 2026 | 93.8% | 30.08 |
| 23 Oct 2026 | 94.0% | 30.15 |
| 22 Oct 2026 | 94.2% | 30.21 |
| 21 Oct 2026 | 94.4% | 30.28 |
| 20 Oct 2026 | 94.6% | 30.32 |
| 19 Oct 2026 | 94.8% | 30.39 |
| 18 Oct 2026 | 95.0% | 30.47 |
| 17 Oct 2026 | 95.4% | 30.6 |