Meadowlakes starts preparing for possible water reduction by spring

MEADOWLAKES — If dry weather continues into next spring, city officials could find themselves wrestling with ways to reduce water consumption.

Meadowlakes is dealing with the same issues faced by Marble Falls and Burnet, which are also water customers of the Lower Colorado River Authority. Texas is in the grip of what could become a new drought of record.

“What the LCRA has told us is there will be a 20 percent curtailment (in firm-water use),” City Manager Johnnie Thompson told the City Council Nov. 8.

LCRA says the reduction will be necessary if lakes Buchanan and Travis, the region’s two storage reservoirs, continue to drop this spring.

While the LCRA would reduce the amount of raw water it provides to its customers by 20 percent, Thompson said it’s possible the reduction wouldn’t have much of an impact on the city.