Canyon Lake held 96.4% of its conservation storage on Oct. 28, while Comal County’s drought index averaged 582. The lake figure comes from the Texas Water Development Board’s Canyon Lake report; the drought index comes from the Texas A&M Forest Service’s county reading.
For residents checking local water conditions, the four official releases now offer separate measures of lake storage, springflow, river flow and dry ground. Each measure describes a different part of the local picture; the figures should be read with their dates and units.
From the source record
Separate gauges; values are provisional and are not a time series.
Lake storage and dry ground
The Texas Water Development Board lists Canyon Lake at 96.4% of conservation storage as of Oct. 28. That percentage describes storage against the lake’s conservation capacity; it does not measure river flow or groundwater levels.
The Texas A&M Forest Service reports a county drought-index average of 582, with readings ranging from 335 to 690. The county average rose three points from the previous day. Because the published range spans 355 index points, the county average should not be treated as a reading for every property or neighborhood.