BS! I had to register my private water well a few years ago that has been on my land unregistered for over 50 years. Everyone has had to either pull their lake pumps or pay fines. You can’t have a septic system without their approval. Any septic repairs have to be done on the sly or they’ll be banging on your door. They made us buy extra land to move ours so don’t tell me they have no authority. It’s the Lower Colorado River AUTHORITY. The LCRA thinks it’s God. They can and do regulate every drop of water on and off the lakes.
I’m not denying you had to register your well.
I am just skeptical that you registered it with LCRA, as opposed to your county’s groundwater district. What county are you in? If your well is an “alluvial well” — a (typically shallow) well drilled very near a river and essentially recharged from the river — then maybe LCRA does have some authority.
LCRA certainly does control over surface water with an iron fist. But not groundwater.
By the way, as a landowner, you can take some comfort in the fact that the Texas Supreme Court recently and strongly reaffirmed that a landowner has a constitutional RIGHT to groundwater beneath their property.
This actually had the effect of causing some groundwater districts to EASE UP on their regulation a bit, to avoid lawsuits by property owners that the district would most likely lose.
Water is a scarce resource in high demand in Texas. I would expect more and more contention for it in the future — particularly between thirsty cities and the rural areas that the cities see as “sitting on all that water we could have”.