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I should note that LCRA isn’t following its own flood protocol with states that only 30,000 cfs outlow until the lake hits 710

I believe they are concerned that there is a chance the Lake could over top the spillway

I should note: the Max outflow of Lake Travis is around 100,000 cfs which they will only do if the Dam is in Danger

I suspect the outflows from Lake Buchanan will be redcued soon

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edit Note: The Dam about the Llano river is Buchanan Dam

local news link
https://www.kvue.com/

lake levels
https://floodstatus.lcra.org/#llevels

river flows
https://hydromet.lcra.org/

They haven’t followed their protocols for years. The first sentence on their website states the dams were built for flood control. Over the past few years, they’ve raised the lake levels and kept them high for recreational use. People around Kingsland are blaming the LCRA for the deaths and property damage. They should have started letting water out long before the floods came. Back in the day, when real human beings monitored the waters, we didn’t have so many floods and certainly not nearly as bad. Today, nimrods sit in their cubicles in Austin, two hours away from the beginning of the lake chain, and oblivious to the actual conditions.

I’ve lived on LBJ since the 60s. I know first hand their incompetence. In 97, I called them because they were washing us out by dumping Buchanan water into an already flooding Llano. They told me my eyes were lying and that the lake was constant. I kept telling them how rapidly it was rising. Nope, their gauges weren’t seeing any rise. They can’t wrap their pea brains around that a gauge on the Buchanan Dam that two miles across might show a different reading if a gauge were put out in front of my part of the river which is a 100 yards across. Try shoving millions of gallons through a narrow area and see what happens.

And don’t get me started on the years and years and untold dollars spend on Buchanan Dam’s repairs. They’ve been “repairing” for longer than it took to built the thing. That’s the dirty secret. They can’t allow it to fill to capacity or it might break.