LCRA: Highland Lakes boaters should be extra cautious July 4
MARBLE FALLS — With fireworks displays illuminating the skies over lakes Marble Falls and LBJ on…
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LCRA: Drought hangs on despite rising Highland Lakes levels
CONNIE SWINNEY • STAFF WRITER SPICEWOOD — The history of dry spells and floods in…
Governor appoints former Marble Falls mayor to LCRA board of directors
CONNIE SWINNEY • PICAYUNE STAFF MARBLE FALLS — Outgoing Mayor George Russell bids farewell to…
LCRA, cities take aim at water weeds with chemical treatments
CONNIE SWINNEY • PICAYUNE STAFF MARBLE FALLS — The Lower Colorado River Authority has launched…
LCRA postpones meeting on nuisance aquatic vegetation
FROM STAFF REPORTS HORSESHOE BAY — The Lower Colorado River Authority is postponing a March…
LCRA, water group contest upstream dam application
CONNIE SWINNEY • PICAYUNE STAFF GOLDTHWAITE — Several years of strain on water resources caused…
LCRA joins with NASA in first-of-its-kind soil study
FROM STAFF REPORTS MARBLE FALLS — The Lower Colorado River Authority is getting an unlikely…
As 2015 starts, Highland Lakes falls toward all-time drought declaration
DANIEL CLIFTON • PICAYUNE EDITOR MARBLE FALLS — Despite a moderate amount of rainfall in 2014,…
Drought prompts LCRA to seek OK to halt lake releases for fourth year
SPECIAL TO DAILYTRIB.COM AUSTIN — With parts of Texas in the midst of a persistent,…
LCRA board OKs water plan changes, new downstream reservoir
FROM STAFF REPORTS AUSTIN — The Lower Colorado River Authority began the process of changing…
Canadian company buys water and wastewater plants in Central Texas
CONNIE SWINNEY • PICAYUNE STAFF AUSTIN — Canada-based Corix Utilities Inc. finalized on July 31…
LCRA puts pressure on those with illegal ‘straws’ in water
FROM STAFF REPORTS AUSTIN — The Lower Colorado River Authority is stepping up enforcement against…
Colorado River advocacy groups squaring off in water fight
CONNIE SWINNEY • PICAYUNE STAFF AUSTIN — As drought conditions continue, the battle over water…
Cities expected to pass LCRA water-rate hike to customers
FROM STAFF REPORTS MARBLE FALLS — The Lower Colorado River Authority approved a one-year rate…
New water plant coming for drought-striken Spicewood Beach area
CONNIE SWINNEY • PICAYUNE STAFF SPICEWOOD — A new water system takes shape, signaling the…
Rainfall over Highland Lakes provides temporary relief from drought, raises reservoirs
CONNIE SWINNEY • PICAYUNE STAFF LLANO — Watching runoff from rain pour over structures such…
LCRA chips away at rate-hike proposal after public outcry
CONNIE SWINNEY • PICAYUNE STAFF MARBLE FALLS — Lower Colorado River Authority officials have tempered…
LCRA hosting meeting to discuss proposed water rates
FROM STAFF REPORTS MARBLE FALLS — The Lower Colorado River Authority is hosting a meeting…
Marble Falls, Horseshoe Bay launch tighter restrictions, fines for water waste
CONNIE SWINNEY • PICAYUNE STAFF MARBLE FALLS — Municipalities have implemented more stringent water conservation…
TCEQ approves emergency drought order for Highland Lakes with no trigger point
DANIEL CLIFTON • PICAYUNE EDITOR AUSTIN — Texas Commission on Environmental Quality commissioners left Highland…
Judges side with Highland Lakes over downstream customers in water fight
DANIEL CLIFTON AND CONNIE SWINNEY • PICAYUNE STAFF AUSTIN — Two administrative law judges upped…
TCEQ sends LCRA emergency drought relief request to judge
FROM STAFF REPORTS AUSTIN — Some Lower Colorado River Authority irrigation customers, including rice farmers,…
Highland Lakes officials urge residents to take stand on water-level triggers
FROM STAFF REPORTS BURNET — County officials are asking Highland Lakes residents to write or…
LCRA names executive director of TxDOT its new general manager
SPECIAL TO DAILYTRIB.COM AUSTIN — The Lower Colorado River Authority board of directors voted unanimously…