DANIEL CLIFTON • PICAYUNE EDITOR MARBLE FALLS — When it comes to the drought strangling the Highland Lakes and most of Texas, Lower Colorado River Authority General Manager Beck Motal understands the impact it has on communities up and down the river’s lower basin.

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FROM STAFF REPORTS AUSTIN — A late-inning save for lower Colorado River rice farmers never came as a deadline for a Highland Lakes water cutoff came and went March 1 without substantial increases to lake levels.

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FROM STAFF REPORTS BURNET — Highland Lakes residents can learn about the current water and drought situation during a meeting Feb. 27 at the Burnet County Courthouse, 220 S. Pierce St. The meeting, “Dealing with the Drought Disaster and Water Legislation,” starts at 6 p.m in the second-floor room at the courthouse. Doors open at [...]

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FROM STAFF REPORTS AUSTIN — Without a tremendous amount of rain between now and 11:59 p.m. March 1, the Lower Colorado River Authority will cut off most water releases from the Highland Lakes for downstream irrigation purposes.

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AUSTIN — Without a significant amount of rain falling in the upper portion of the lower Colorado River basin by March 1, rice farmers in three lower basin counties could face a second year without Highland Lakes water. At least that’s what a resolution unanimously approved Jan. 8 by the 15-member Lower Colorado River Authority [...]

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