Did the Lower Colorado River Authority sell water from the Spicewood Beach well to water haulers who trucked water out of the area?
That is a question state Sen. Troy Fraser (pictured), R-Horseshoe Bay, has posed in a letter to the LCRA that asks about assertions made by several Spicewood area residents.
An LCRA spokeswoman did not immediately provide an answer to Fraser’s question.
The Spicewood Beach well ran too low this week to ...
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This afternoon, Tom Mason, an environmental attorney who headed the Lower Colorado River Authority from 2007 to 2011, gave a brief talk about the current Texas drought, the state water plan and what’s next for the state and the Austin area.
I was able to catch his lunchtime talk, followed up with a few questions from an audience of about 100 people involved in water issues, including local politicians, current and former LCRA board ...
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SOUTHEASTERN BURNET COUNTY — A Central Texas community has run out of water amid a statewide drought, prompting the Lower Colorado River Authority to start trucking in water.
The well supplying the Spicewood Beach water system, about 35 miles northwest of Austin on Lake Travis, no longer has enough water to supply the 500 homes and an elementary school relying on the system, the LCRA said.
The first 4,000-gallons of water came in today ...
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The well serving about 1,100 people around Spicewood Beach in Burnet County is estimated to run out of water in just a few days, the water system’s owner, the Lower Colorado River Authority, said today.
The well level has been steadily dropping since the summer, the LCRA has said, due to prolonged drought conditions.
On Monday, the LCRA said the well had two to three weeks of water remaining, but on Tuesday said that the well level ...
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The Lower Colorado River Authority posted its proposed water management plan this morning, a 226-page document that details how the river authority that provides water for cities including Austin will manage it’s supplies in the future.
The plan would allow more flexible management of the river basin by the LCRA, such as setting separate triggers for allocating water to downstream rice farmers’ first and seconds crops. The current ...
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The wells supplying water for about 1,100 residents near Spicewood Beach in Burnet County are at risk of running dry in two to three weeks because of prolonged drought conditions.
The Lower Colorado River Authority, which owns and operates the wells that serve Spicewood Elementary School as well as homes and businesses in the communities of Spicewood Beach, Lakeside Beach, Lake Oaks and Eagle Bluff, is asking customers to “immediately ...
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The Lower Colorado River Authority’s general manager said in today’s board meeting that she plans to secure 100,000 acre-feet of new water supply by 2017.
The LCRA currently has a maximum reservoir storage of 2.01 million acre-feet, but under the current drought, the LCRA’s two main reservoirs, lakes Travis and Buchanan, have 738,000 acre-feet of water. The new supply of water would be enough to supply roughly 300,000 ...
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The Lower Colorado River Authority’s revised water management plan will be published next week, Jan. 24, Suzanne Zarling, the LCRA’s executive manager for integrated resource planning, said today.
The plan will be posted on LCRA.org and folks can submit comments on the plan via email until Feb. 9. The LCRA board will likely vote on the plan at the Feb. 22 regular Board of Directors meeting, where people can comment on the plan in ...
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The Lower Colorado River Authority’s staff said it is still working on a new water management plan that it hopes to release soon to the public for review but will not vote on the final version of the plan until at least February.
The new plan that would place an annual limit on water for farmers and use separate triggers for providing water for rice farmers’ first and second crops, among other changes from current planning ...
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Data dorks and generally responsible citizens rejoice! The Environmental Protection Agency has published a nationwide database of greenhouse emissions data from 2010, reported directly from large facilities and suppliers.
You can search for greenhouse gas emitters — and not just power plants, which give off 72.3 percent of greenhouse gasses — by their name, location and industry category. The database includes mineral mines, paper ...
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