{"id":1864,"date":"2026-04-02T17:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:47:09","slug":"2026-04-02-level-forecast-and-lac-seul-outflow-reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/2026\/04\/02\/2026-04-02-level-forecast-and-lac-seul-outflow-reduction\/","title":{"rendered":"2026.04.02 Level Forecast and Lac Seul Outflow Reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Snow is forecast for the southern portions of the basin over the weekend, followed by colder temperatures early next week.  As a result, inflow to the major lakes remains stable.  Minor outflow adjustments are being made to maintain stable lake levels until the spring refill period begins.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The current level of Lake of the Woods is 322.42 m (1057.8 ft), a 40<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0percentile level, within the normal range for this time of year. The average lake level remained stable over the past week and is expected to remain stable or increase by up to 3 cm (1 in) over the next week. Lake of the Woods authorized outflow is 200 m<sup>3<\/sup>\/s, with no changes scheduled at this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The current level of\u00a0Lac Seul\u00a0is 354.63 m (1163.5 ft), a 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0percentile level, below the normal range for this time of year. The lake level decreased 4.2 cm (1.7 in) over the last week and is expected to remain stable or decrease by up to 2.5 cm (1 in) over the next week.\u00a0Lac Seul authorized outflow was <strong>reduced to 175 m<sup>3<\/sup>\/s on Thursday, April 2<sup>nd<\/sup><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The LWCB\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lwcb.ca\/waterflowdata.html\">Basin Data<\/a>\u00a0page will not be updated on Friday, April 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0(Good Friday, holiday in Canada) or on Monday, April 6<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0(Easter Monday). Daily data updates will resume on Tuesday, April 7<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snow is forecast for the southern portions of the basin over the weekend, followed by colder temperatures early next week. As a result, inflow to the major lakes remains stable. Minor outflow adjustments are being made to maintain stable lake levels until the spring refill period begins. The current level of Lake of the Woods&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/2026\/04\/02\/2026-04-02-level-forecast-and-lac-seul-outflow-reduction\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2026.04.02 Level Forecast and Lac Seul Outflow Reduction<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1865,"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions\/1865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwcb.ca\/noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}