{"id":449295,"date":"2026-09-27T12:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T12:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/449295\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T12:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T12:50:10","slug":"canyon-lake-is-no-longer-at-100-capacity-after-major-rebound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/449295\/","title":{"rendered":"Canyon Lake is no longer at 100% capacity after major rebound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lake was 98.2% full on Friday, September 25, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterdatafortexas.org\/reservoirs\/individual\/canyon\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Water Data for Texas<\/a>, with a mean water level of 908.16 feet and 371,974 acre-feet of reservoir storage.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a small drop from the reservoir\u2019s summer peak. Canyon Lake reached 100% of its conservation capacity in July, hitting a milestone that had not been reached since 2021. It remained at 100% as recently as of late August.<\/p>\n<p>By September 18, the lake had dipped to 98.8% full. It fell to 98.3% on September 23 before reaching 98.2% on September 25.<\/p>\n<p>Even with the recent decline, Canyon Lake remains in dramatically better shape than it was earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>On June 21, the reservoir was just 61.6% full, with a mean water level of 888.47 feet and 233,584 acre-feet of reservoir storage. By late August, it had climbed to 381,991 acre-feet and reached 100% of its conservation capacity.<\/p>\n<p>The lake is also far fuller than it was at the same point last year. On September 21, 2025, Canyon Lake was 67% full and held 253,786 acre-feet of reservoir storage.<\/p>\n<p>As of Friday, September 25, the reservoir had 371,974 acre-feet of storage against a conservation capacity of 378,781 acre-feet.<\/p>\n<p>So while Canyon Lake is no longer sitting at the summer\u2019s 100% mark, its latest numbers show just how much ground the reservoir gained during a dramatic 2026 turnaround.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lake was 98.2% full on Friday, September 25, according to Water Data for Texas, with a mean&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10428,820,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-449295","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\/449295","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=449295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}