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.
Like I said before LCRA has been idiotic, if you listened to them on Tuesday they said the lake will top out 690-695 feet today(48 hours)....all while the lake was in the 680’s and rising at rates of 1.5 feet per hour with 300,000 cfs still pouring in
Buchanan topped out at 1119.2 and has now fallen to now 1118.7.....with outflows exceeding inflows..it was 1112-1113 before this event.
I don’t get it..get as much water out of the system now and open another gate if not two on Travis NOW
RE: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.
hi
well it looks look Lake travis may have peaked. its having a hard time getting over 804.3 feet the closing of the two gates at Buchanan today helped but Buchanan is rising again since 26K is till going in and only 16K out
now back up to 1018.4 feet (it was down below 1018 after maxing out at 1091.2
being local, could you explain more about buchanan lake issues..I found this article about FEMA not allowing it to over 2018 feet
https://www.kxan.com/news/lake-buchanan-staying-below-full-despite-flooding/1049735880
Thanks
PS this may go off and on all winter if long term forecast are correct