reservoir
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With far less snowmelt than usual feeding the Colorado River, inflows dwindled, and the second-largest reservoir in the United States fell to record-low levels in late August and early September.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
Roughly a month earlier, the reservoir had already fallen below its previous record low of 3,519.92 feet, which was set on April 13, 2023.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
However, reservoir storage and groundwater levels continue to decline.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
“When he has his tail up, he’s happy,” Atrakchi said on a recent hike overlooking the reservoir.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
She would lean into the open grate of the reservoir and pull out five stones the size of cantaloupes that stopped it up.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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Those branches may have helped establish new reservoirs of Yersinia pestis in wild rodent populations.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
“Natural history collections are reservoirs of evidence, often used in ways no one could have predicted when they were first built,” said Luis Chiappe, director of the Dinosaur Institute at the Natural History Museum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
The practice was banned in 2020, but the bare faces that cutting left behind are still collapsing and eroding today, washing sediment down into reservoirs.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
It operates using rainwater that collects in two reservoirs, whose levels have dropped due to the onset of El Nino.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
By the early 1990s Folan's team had learned that this long-ignored place covered as much as twenty-five square miles and had thousands of buildings and dozens of reservoirs and canals.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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