{"id":408072,"date":"2026-08-16T11:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408072\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T11:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:36:09","slug":"days-of-heavy-rain-now-push-medina-lake-to-nearly-30-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408072\/","title":{"rendered":"Days of heavy rain now push Medina Lake to nearly 30% capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of\u00a0Friday, August 14, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/hill-country\/article\/medina-lake-water-levels-22316627.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Medina Lake<\/a> was 29.9% full, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/waterdatafortexas.org\/reservoirs\/individual\/medina\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Water Data for Texas<\/a>. The reservoir had a mean water level of 1,021.89 feet and held about 76,139 acre-feet of water.<\/p>\n<p>Just one month ago, on July 14, Medina Lake was only 9.3% full, with a mean water level of 991.78 feet and about 23,759 acre-feet of water in storage. That means the reservoir has gained more than 52,000 acre-feet of water and risen about 30 feet in just one month.<\/p>\n<p>The lake&#8217;s recovery follows widespread heavy rainfall and flooding across the Texas Hill Country in June and July, which sent large amounts of water into area rivers and reservoirs.<\/p>\n<p>Three months ago, Medina Lake was just 3.8% full, holding fewer than 10,000 acre-feet of water. One year ago, it was 6.4% full.<\/p>\n<p>The reservoir&#8217;s recent recovery represents a significant improvement after years of drought pushed Medina Lake toward historically low levels. In April 2025, the lake had fallen to about 2% full.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the gains, Medina Lake remains well below its 254,823-acre-foot conservation capacity. The lake has not reached full capacity since 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As of\u00a0Friday, August 14, Medina Lake was 29.9% full, according to Water Data for Texas. The reservoir had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10428,820,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-408072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-mysaoutdoors","tag-mysastaff","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\/408072","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=408072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}