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29 minutes ago, troph said:

Proposed desal plant on Baffin Bay in my socials. Anglers and duck hunters up in arms. 

Actually not on the bay, but inland ground water wells.  They are upset about the plan to discharge the brine into a creek that feeds into Baffin.

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4 hours ago, CleverNickname said:

I respect your learned opinion. But I'm like Lincoln on this. McClellan, you're fired. Pope and Burnside, fired. Hooker? Fired. McClellan: Fired again. You either fight, or you sit down.

I said I want plump and pretty women on the Little River. Not little women on the Pretty River. I want it all. Desal. Fanning county? More like Fan-flooded county. Big ass pipelines stealing water from Aggy and piping it to Sand Aggy. And then when they piss it out, I'm shipping the piss back to Waco. I'm going to pump so much water into Ogallala that the sand hills of Nebraska will flush down to Kanasas and make it interesting. Money? We got money. We don't spend it on education or health care, what the fuck is money for? Im gonna take Commanche County and make it a giant hole and fill it up. I like holes and fuck those sundown town racists. 

"Stop, Clever, stop! It's too much water!" Hell no. We filling this damn bathtub, and I dont care how many turds have to float to make it happen. Jacob's Well ain't just gonna run, its gonna be a fucking geyser. We will fill up DKR like the Coliseum, and Fozzy Whittaker is going to ski jump over Katy Perry's left shark.

Twenty-five years ago I promised my drunken longhorn peers a lazy river to cirumnavigate campus, and now is the fucking time.

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Put me in the camp we are going to 681. The dock guys are loving this, lots of work for them. LCRA sucks at their projections

1 hour ago, Horns99 said:

Put me in the camp we are going to 681. The dock guys are loving this, lots of work for them. LCRA sucks at their projections

Shit I didn't think I'd see this site get this close to the top again for a while

Is The Lake Full Yet?

With Lake Travis now about 670 feet, is there any problem with the lake going above 681?  It has been at 700 before, correct?

12 minutes ago, JGrayDBU said:

With Lake Travis now about 670 feet, is there any problem with the lake going above 681?  It has been at 700 before, correct?

It has but it wasn't a good situation.  They'll hold it up into the 690s if they have to, in order to avoid creating dangerous situations downstream.  But if it's safe downstream, they'll release at 681 or so.

 

 

 

7 hours ago, Horns99 said:

Put me in the camp we are going to 681. The dock guys are loving this, lots of work for them. LCRA sucks at their projections

There is still 17% capacity left to fill to get to 681. There is still a lot of water coming in, but the worst is over.

6 minutes ago, utee94 said:

It has but it wasn't a good situation.  They'll hold it up into the 690s if they have to, in order to avoid creating dangerous situations downstream.  But if it's safe downstream, they'll release at 681 or so.

 

 

 

It got up to 710 during Christmas of 1991.  They had a ton of rain and couldn't release water downstream because it would have flooded everything past Travis.  I believe the top of the dam is 714.  Graveyard Point home owners were pissed because their houses at feet of water in them.

Just now, 1978horn said:

It got up to 710 during Christmas of 1991.  They had a ton of rain and couldn't release water downstream because it would have flooded everything past Travis.  I believe the top of the dam is 714.  Graveyard Point home owners were pissed because their houses at feet of water in them.

Yup.  As I mentioned before, I have pictures of myself from December 1991, canoeing through my best friend's Volente lakehouse when the water was at 710.  But that was a special circumstance.  Right now with no massive flooding occurring downstream, they'd be safe to release if the water rises above 680.

I don't think the current rain event is going to quite get us there, but every time the rains out west seem to end, more comes along.  So it's still possible we'll hit 680 within the next week or so.

Just snapped this screenshot (7:27 AM). Hydromet shows the lake to be at 670.67. There seems to be the tiniest sliver of Sometimes Island way in the back, so MIA's thought that it was 671' when they disappear seems to be the winner.image.jpeg.6705174051029aa5e703a697fb579499.jpeg

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15 hours ago, HOOKEM4 said:

In 2026 the PUA is going to be handed back a decent chunk of water from a few MUDs. Enough for them to once again oversell water. Good thing is that there isn't much more development possible in their CCN. Between conservation land and wastewater unavailability, coupled with high land cost and acreage lots becoming a thing of the past, they might just make it. It is over 2k LUEs they will get off the books.

WTCPUA is a disaster at the moment.  Overdevelopment on HPR has caused some headaches for sure.  A number of stage 3 declarations / boil water notices due to over-watering in the HPR area and draining water towers overnight in the last year.  They need to focus on limiting development or expanding their water treatment volumes.  Frankly, they probably need to split the district, as they're servicing Bee Cave down to Dripping Springs.  WCID 18 is pretty much just the Cuernavaca area last I recall.

9 hours ago, Horns99 said:

Put me in the camp we are going to 681. The dock guys are loving this, lots of work for them. LCRA sucks at their projections

Buddy's place is near Jonestown park, and said those floods basically took the 1 ton cement dock anchors and dragged them downstream like they were 5 lb mushroom anchors behind a cruise ship.  Time for the 55 gallon drum + T-posts + cement homemade anchors.

2 hours ago, 1978horn said:

It got up to 710 during Christmas of 1991.  They had a ton of rain and couldn't release water downstream because it would have flooded everything past Travis.  I believe the top of the dam is 714.  Graveyard Point home owners were pissed because their houses at feet of water in them.

I think I see their problem.

2 hours ago, utee94 said:

Yup.  As I mentioned before, I have pictures of myself from December 1991, canoeing through my best friend's Volente lakehouse when the water was at 710.  But that was a special circumstance.  Right now with no massive flooding occurring downstream, they'd be safe to release if the water rises above 680.

I don't think the current rain event is going to quite get us there, but every time the rains out west seem to end, more comes along.  So it's still possible we'll hit 680 within the next week or so.

We had family friends that bought a house on the lake in Flat Creek cove/Travis Oaks area after the big 1991 flood. The previous owners were fed up with it and our friends got a great deal on it. It seems like the lake got into that house again a couple of times after they owned it too. Being out there in normal times it just seems impossible there could be enough water to get up that high.

eta - just texted him and he said the top of their slab is at 684.

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25 minutes ago, Fiscal dominance said:

You got your wish. finally seeing some real flow downstream. It hasn't flowed by Uvalde in a while. Calling for 12 feet there. Hell yeah.

Nueces River below Uvalde

Very nice.   It will be interesting to see how much of that is going to actually make it down to Lake CC and Choke Canyon.   The Nueces had some dry areas the more south it goes. 

43 minutes ago, troph said:

Down to one flood gate at Buchanan and 16k CFS over inks spillway. Streamflow receding too. 

They did update the forecast for Travis to 273-275 in the next 24-48 hours. 

20 hours ago, Nueces River Rat said:

Actually not on the bay, but inland ground water wells.  They are upset about the plan to discharge the brine into a creek that feeds into Baffin.

I mean we can just send the brine to college station right?

2 minutes ago, troph said:

That makes sense I don’t see 680… 

Not from this one, but one more big rain event in the next couple weeks with all the lakes above it full, would likely do it. 

Yeah, Lake Travis is starting to level off a bit over the past few hours.  But the streamflows into Buchanan are still very strong, and it continues to rain out west.  A continuation of this pattern over a few more days, and 680 isn't out of the question over the next couple of weeks.

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31 minutes ago, hornbri said:

They did update the forecast for Travis to 273-275 in the next 24-48 hours. 

I hope we never see 273-275.

Bastrop would be on the coast.

3 minutes ago, HOOKEM4 said:

I hope we never see 273-275.

Bastrop would be on the coast.

Ha, Not sure how I messed that up. 

Canyon is at 891. 909 is full. Was at 878 before all of the storms. So up 13, needs 18 to fill. Hopefully this was enough to open some boat ramps up though.

18 hours ago, Orange&White said:

Just snapped this screenshot (7:27 AM). Hydromet shows the lake to be at 670.67. There seems to be the tiniest sliver of Sometimes Island way in the back, so MIA's thought that it was 671' when they disappear seems to be the winner.image.jpeg.6705174051029aa5e703a697fb579499.jpeg

Called it! 

I need to get back to Vegas.

13 hours ago, HOOKEM4 said:

Is there a way to post this where non fb people can watch it? I hate fb.

Hold on while I throw it up on my MySpace page...

22 hours ago, Fiscal dominance said:

You got your wish. finally seeing some real flow downstream. It hasn't flowed by Uvalde in a while. Calling for 12 feet there. Hell yeah.

Nueces River below Uvalde

I grew up close to the Nueces and would swim in it all the time as a kid. Not that I go back often, but It's been years since I've seen any flow in the old swimming spots. 

1 hour ago, Bookman said:

I grew up close to the Nueces and would swim in it all the time as a kid. Not that I go back often, but It's been years since I've seen any flow in the old swimming spots. 

We went swimming in Camp Wood in 2020... absolutely loved our time there.  Has it been low that high up on the Nueces?

3 hours ago, texasdago said:

We went swimming in Camp Wood in 2020... absolutely loved our time there.  Has it been low that high up on the Nueces?

I don't know, I grew up just south of Uvalde. 

23 minutes ago, Bookman said:

I don't know, I grew up just south of Uvalde. 

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All floodgate operations along the Highland Lakes have ceased as of 1:04 PM today.  There are still some relatively strong flows into Buchanan and so consequently the level there has now risen to just above 1020.  And inflows to Lake Travis have slowed and the increases are leveling off, current level is 673.29 and climbing slowly now.  We'll probably see some residual runoff continue into Lake Travis over the next few days, increasing lake levels by inches rather than feet at a time, but without any further rain events in the immediate future, the effects of this most recent rain event are effectively over.

 

 

15 minutes ago, utee94 said:

ut without any further rain events in the immediate future, the effects of this most recent rain event are effectively over.

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11 minutes ago, Rip76 said:

Here come the Blastfurnace.

Suffice to say-- it's never going to rain again.

6 hours ago, texasdago said:

We went swimming in Camp Wood in 2020... absolutely loved our time there.  Has it been low that high up on the Nueces?

This is what it looks like further downstream as of yesterday   

 

 

 

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