Catawba Wateree Water Management Group 2015 Annual Report

Catawba-Wateree River Basin remains in LIP Normal status

August 1, 2024: Dry conditions through the early summer brought near drought conditions across the basin. However, frequent showers during the end of July moved the lake level storage index over 100% of target and recharged streams, maintaining LIP Normal status.

Lake Level Information

Duke Energy maintains a comprehensive website with lake level information that can be found here.

Catawba-Wateree Drought Management Advisory Group (CW-DMAG)

As part of Duke Energy’s Catawba-Wateree hydro relicensing process, the CW-DMAG was created to address water use by large water users and entities with water intakes. This group developed a low inflow protocol (LIP) to establish procedures for reductions in water use during periods of low inflow to the Catawba-Wateree basin. Click here for the Low Inflow Protocol.

In addition, each year since 2006 the CW-DMAG, in collaboration with the CWWMG member utilities, has collected and analyzed extensive water use data for the Catawba-Wateree River Basin. The results are summarized in an annual report; copies are provided below. For additional information about the CW-DMAG visit Duke Energy CW-DMAG.

The CW-DMAG Annual Meeting was held June 14, 2022. 

The CW-DMAG also conducts periodic reviews of the Low Inflow Protocol (LIP), the written protocol that provides procedures for how the Catawba-Wateree Hydroelectric Project will be operated by Duke Energy, as well as water withdrawal reduction measures and goals for other water users, during periods of low inflow (i.e., drought conditions). Click here to read the current LIP, approved in January 2019: Low Inflow Protocol for the Catawba-Wateree Project.