Alcova Reservoir

  The Bureau of Reclamation announced in a press release earlier this week that the annual filling of Alcova Reservoir will began on Wednesday, Apr. 1, 2015. Deputy Wyoming Area Manager, Lyle Myler said, “This increase in reservoir level will be completed by May 1 to allow deliveries to the Casper-Alcova Irrigation District Canal,” During April, the reservoir will rise approximately 10 feet to the

Natrona County's Road and Bridge Department did not submit bogus grant proposals to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation for projects at Alcova Reservoir, the county's attorney in the case wrote Monday.

Taxpayers and those who use the Alcova, Pathfinder and Gray Reef reservoirs deserve better from Natrona County's Road and Bridge Department, which allegedly defrauded the federal government, an attorney for the former superintendent of Alcova said Thursday...

The former superintendent of Alcova Reservoir claims in a federal lawsuit that Natrona County's Road and Bridge Department filed false financial reports about Alcova, Pathfinder and Gray Reef reservoirs amounting to more than $1 million to the U...

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department says ice fishermen need to be on the lookout for potentially dangerous conditions as the Bureau of Reclamation lowers water levels at Alcova Reservoir. Game and Fish officials say water levels will be roughly five feet below the normal winter operating range at the reservoir as Natrona County construction crews build a new boat ramp at Okie Beach...

Wyoming Game and Fish has loosened some of its ice fishing regulations on over 20 bodies of water in the state. Under the special provision, ice anglers can fish with up to six lines instead of the normal maximum of two at certain Wyoming lakes and reservoirs...

The annual drawdown of Alcova Reservoir will begin Monday October 1st, 2012.During the month of October, the reservoir water surface elevation will be lowered about 10 feet at a rate of approximately 4 inches per day. The reservoir's normal winter operationg range is between 5,487 and 5,489 feet...

A recent appraisal of Bureau of Reclamation trailer park property at Alcova has lessees less than happy about a possible $450.00 dollar a year increase. The yearly lease price has steadily risen from $840 in 2003 to a proposed $2450 in 2012...

The Bureau of Reclamation brings to an end this month one of its busiest years on record as record high water levels moved downstream on the North Platte river. Listen here,

Growing up in Casper I know just how hot some of those July/August days can get. While there is always the option of just cranking up the AC and being a couch potato, in my opinion, there are too many great places in Casper that you can go, relax (perhaps grab a drink) and cool off...