LCRA, water group contest upstream dam application
CONNIE SWINNEY • PICAYUNE STAFF GOLDTHWAITE — Several years of strain on water resources caused…
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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…
LCRA general manager talks drought, water development project
DANIEL CLIFTON • PICAYUNE EDITOR MARBLE FALLS — When it comes to the drought strangling the…
LCRA cuts off downstream water releases from Highland Lakes for rice farmers
FROM STAFF REPORTS AUSTIN — A late-inning save for lower Colorado River rice farmers never…
Highland Lakes water meeting gives public chance to ask questions
FROM STAFF REPORTS BURNET — Highland Lakes residents can learn about the current water and…
State approves LCRA emergency drought relief measure
FROM STAFF REPORTS AUSTIN — Without a tremendous amount of rain between now and 11:59…
LCRA votes to ask state to keep 2011 emergency drought measures
AUSTIN — Without a significant amount of rain falling in the upper portion of the…