{"id":378338,"date":"2026-07-19T01:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T01:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/378338\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T01:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T01:45:09","slug":"historic-rains-dramatically-boost-canyon-lake-water-levels-to-almost-full-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/378338\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic rains dramatically boost Canyon Lake water levels to almost full"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CANYON LAKE, Texas &#8211; After days of heavy rain and devastating flooding across Southern Texas, Canyon Lake has risen to almost full levels.<\/p>\n<p>As of Saturday, July 18, the reservoir is 95.6% full, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/canyon-lake-businesses-brace-for-drought-as-fluctuating-water-levels-threaten-tourism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Canyon Lake businesses brace for drought as fluctuating water levels threaten tourism<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just a week ago, Canyon Lake was only 60.9% full, continuing a months-long stretch of below-normal lake levels.<\/p>\n<p>The recent flooding changed that almost overnight.<\/p>\n<p>In just two days, the lake jumped from 69.4% full on July 16 to 95.6% full on July 18, gaining nearly 100,000 acre-feet of water. The lake level also rose from 893.19 feet to 906.97 feet during that time, an increase of nearly 14 feet.<\/p>\n<p>As of Saturday morning, the water level was 907.31 feet, putting the lake just 1.69 feet below its conservation pool elevation of 909 feet.<\/p>\n<p>The rapid rise is one of the biggest increases Canyon Lake has seen in recent years. Before this week&#8217;s storms, the reservoir had hovered around 60% full for months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CANYON LAKE, Texas &#8211; After days of heavy rain and devastating flooding across Southern Texas, Canyon Lake has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-378338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}