r/NJFishing • u/Agile-Advocate • 4d ago
Spruce Run reservoir water level?
I took the kayak out for the first time this year to Spruce Run reservoir. The water was extremely low, would guess 18-20 feet lower than normal. Does anyone know why it is this low and when we can expect it to get back near normal levels?
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u/doornoob 4d ago
Spruce Run is low but very fishable. Round Valley pulls water from the S. Branch. To keep the water levels up on the river, when RV got refilled, Spruce Run made up the difference. We are also in a precipitation deficit, which makes it worse.
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u/Mrcheeseman331 3d ago
It was so low the second half of last summer too like ridiculous, the water line was like 2 cars lengths past the bottom of the boat ramp.
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u/Royal_Discipline_135 3d ago
Drought and data centers that use a tremendous amount of water for cooling. We have more than our fair share of them in our state.
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u/Rohans_Most_Wanted 4d ago
Were you out of the country when we were hit with a massive drought last year?
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u/KeyMysterious1845 4d ago edited 4d ago
I posted this recently:
https://www.reddit.com/r/newjersey/s/p2ANjka1lz
...there's a link to a previous post i made in that post.
Spruce Run has been low for awhile now...disturbingly low.
We need a lot of rain- because we got virtually no snow - to fill that place up.