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[KXAN] Central Texas cities issue water restrictions (www.kxan.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Brunbrun6766 to c/austin

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[–] kalpol 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was wondering when this was going to happen, with the lake at 45% even before we hit this heat wave.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Lake Travis isn't down much from where it was 6 months ago, and Lake Buchanan is still near 60% full and is higher than it was 3 months ago. LCRA keeps more water impounded in Lake Buchanan when they can rather than sending it to Lake Travis. There were decent inflows into the lakes over the spring and early summer that staved off a precipitous decline like happened in 2011 (plus LCRA cuts off releases to downstream rice farmers in drought now). If this fall is typical of an El Niño year, we should have a very wet October and they'll hopefully fill back up