PHOTOS: Lake LBJ drawdown changes Horseshoe Bay scenery
[slideshow_deploy id=’45139’] HORSESHOE BAY — Images from Lake LBJ show the effects of the Lower…
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LCRA lakes drawdown begins Jan. 2 for dock repairs, maintenance
SPECIAL TO DAILYTRIB.COM AUSTIN – The Lower Colorado River Authority will lower lakes Austin and…
Granite Shoals offers use of dumpsters for lakeside residents clearing debris
JENNIFER FIERRO • STAFF WRITER GRANITE SHOALS — After the Lower Colorado River Authority lowers…
LCRA to lower Lake LBJ by 4 feet for maintenance
SPECIAL TO DAILYTRIB.COM AUSTIN — The Lower Colorado River Authority will lower Lake LBJ as well…
LCRA open house discussing Highland Lakes’ health
Despite the current lake levels at Lake Buchanan and Lake Travis being near full, Lower Colorado River Authority officials are still keeping an eye on the levels. They are hosting an open house from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 6 at the Lake View Hall in Black Rock Park, 3400 RR 261 in Buchanan Dam.
Get alerts by phone or email for LCRA flood operations
AUSTIN – Residents can receive alerts via text, email or phone when Lower Colorado River…
LCRA to reopen lakes to boaters
FROM STAFF REPORTS MARBLE FALLS — After a week of no recreational boating on the Highland…
LCRA temporarily closes four Highland Lakes
FROM STAFF REPORTS MARBLE FALLS — With heavy rains falling early June 2 in the…
LCRA opens floodgates, closes portions of lakes LBJ, Marble Falls
CONNIE SWINNEY • STAFF WRITER MARBLE FALLS — Lower Colorado River Authority officials launched floodgate…
LCRA, PEC grants benefit Burnet playscape, Hoover Valley VFD
FROM STAFF REPORTS BURNET — A $25,000 grant will brighten a lot of children’s faces…
TCEQ approves plan withholding more Highland Lakes water
CONNIE SWINNEY • STAFF WRITER AUSTIN — The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality unanimously approved…
Website helps you water your yard and save money, resources
FROM STAFF REPORTS MARBLE FALLS — Two organizations that know a thing or two about…
As Lake Buchanan rises, some leery of releasing water downstream
CONNIE SWINNEY • STAFF WRITER BUCHANAN DAM — Domestic water use advocates caution that the…
LCRA: Drought hangs on despite rising Highland Lakes levels
CONNIE SWINNEY • STAFF WRITER SPICEWOOD — The history of dry spells and floods in…
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,…