Posted on 01/14/2015 8:44:27 AM PST by bgill
The LCRA added inflows into the lakes have been well below average every year since 2008, when the current drought began. The combined storage of lakes Travis and Buchanan stood at 689,396 acre-feet on Jan. 1 and are currently just 34 percent full. An acre-foot of water is 325,851 gallons.
If the capacity falls to 30 percent, water customers would be required to reduce their water usage by 20 percent. Officials say there is a small chance this could happen as soon as March.
In November, as a way to conserve water, the LCRA asked the state for permission to suspend water releases from the Highland Lakes for downstream irrigation for the fourth straight year.
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As if you couldn't do a 5 second search for a map. Here it is. The brown area is the desert. The yellow area isn't desert. Just a mere 500 miles from the Highland Lakes.
Good one!
Amen.
True that!
Ain’t no magazine called “Illinois Highways” either!
Them piney sand dunes are as bad as the hill country desert!
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