Wait a sec ... wasn't Lake McConaughy supposed to be lower than normal this year?

MARK DAVIS / THE WORLD-HERALD
Lake McConaughy’s water level hit 97.2 percent capacity on Monday, but is expected to slowly fall from here on out.


http://www.omaha.com/outdoors/wait-a-sec-wasn-t-lake-mcconaughy-supposed-to-be/article_dcd4d254-a148-5c39-b2ec-d27a0e9ac612.html

POSTED: WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2015 12:30 AM | UPDATED: 11:59 AM, WED JUL 22, 2015.
By David Hendee / World-Herald staff writer

OGALLALA, Neb. — Mother Nature apparently didn’t get the memo.

This was expected to be another below-average, but respectable, year for Lake McConaughy.

So said the engineers who manipulate the massive reservoir — Nebraska’s largest lake — to keep corn-growing farmers and beach-loving families happy.

It was projected that North Platte River runoff into Lake McConaughy from Rocky Mountain snowpack in Wyoming would amount to about a third of normal this spring. That meant the lake would start the summer season an ideal 80 percent full and lined with sandy beaches.

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