LCRA: Drought hangs on despite rising Highland Lakes levels
CONNIE SWINNEY • STAFF WRITER SPICEWOOD — The history of dry spells and floods in…
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LCRA grant helps Burnet conserve water while keeping YMCA fields green
JENNIFER FIERRO • STAFF WRITER BURNET — The Lower Colorado River Authority is helping the…
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…
Low lake levels raise concern over Marble Falls development
CONNIE SWINNEY • PICAYUNE STAFF MARBLE FALLS — As Marble Falls annexes several hundred acres…
Llano blames LCRA, weather for spike in electric bills
CONNIE SWINNEY • PICAYUNE STAFF LLANO — When Kim Thomas received her latest electric bill, she…
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,…
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…
LCRA chips away at rate-hike proposal after public outcry
CONNIE SWINNEY • PICAYUNE STAFF MARBLE FALLS — Lower Colorado River Authority officials have tempered…
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…
LCRA wants to curtail water releases for environmental health to Matagorda Bay
FROM STAFF REPORTS AUSTIN — Citing low water levels in lakes Buchanan and Travis, the…
LCRA eyes Lake Austin action to keep more water in Lake Travis
FROM STAFF REPORTS AUSTIN — Lower Colorado River Authority officials are considering a move that…