Drought Status: Alarm Stage II
Barton Springs Flow: 34.4 cfs (10-day average)
Lovelady Water Level: 178.9 ft
Despite the much-needed rainfall today of up to 2 inches, the aquifer remains in Alarm Stage drought. The rainfall will do a lot to help vegetation, and perhaps reduce some pumping for irrigation, but much more rainfall is needed to bring us out of drought. Today's rain will bump up springflow temporarily, but the flows will quickly return to the low levels seen before today's rainfall.
You may have noticed that the springflow values reported by the District on our Drought Chart is about 2-3 cfs lower than what is reported as provisional data from the USGS (the USGS data is also shown on our website graphic). That is because numerous manual measurements tell us that the gage at Barton Springs is likely reporting higher than actual values by about 2-3 cfs.
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