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To support Lake Powell, the Bureau of Reclamation will release 500,000 acre-feet of water this year from the Flaming Gorge Reservoir upstream to flow into Lake Powell. Another 480,000 acre-feet of water will also be kept in Lake Powell rather than released to Lake Mead. These two measures will keep 980,000 acre-feet in Lake Powell and raise the water level by 16 feet, allowing hydropower production to continue. Lakes Powell and Mead are both at record lows. Reuters (New York), May 3, 2022 Flaming Gorge reservoir in Wyoming will release 500,000 acre-feet of water under a new Drought Operations Plan to bolster alarmingly low water levels at Lake Powell. The plan, approved April 21 by the Upper Colorado River Commission, does not require any water to be released from Blue Mesa near Gunnison, but also does not eliminate the possibility. The 2022 Drought Operations Plan, agreed to by the four Upper Basin states of Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and Utah must still be approved by the secretary of the interior. The Colorado Sun (Denver, Colo.), April 21, 2022