Posted By: bpitcher
LCRA votes to pass further water restrictions - 11/20/13 01:46 PM
LCRA’s Board of Directors voted 8 to 7 at a special called meeting Tuesday to seek permission from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to cut off most downstream farmers if the combined storage of lakes Travis and Buchanan is below 1.1 million acre-feet, or about 55 percent of capacity, at 11:59 p.m. on March 1, 2014. Combined storage is currently about 727,000 acre-feet, or 36 percent of capacity, and the lakes are near historic lows.
The previous minimum combined storage for rice water was 850,000 acre feet.
If the TCEQ passes this, it will mean more bad things for waterfowl on the prairie and the people of Matagorda, Wharton and Colorado counties.
http://www.lcra.org/library/media/public...se-11-19-13.pdf
The previous minimum combined storage for rice water was 850,000 acre feet.
If the TCEQ passes this, it will mean more bad things for waterfowl on the prairie and the people of Matagorda, Wharton and Colorado counties.
http://www.lcra.org/library/media/public...se-11-19-13.pdf