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Highland Lake inflow levels for 2014 second-lowest on record (TX)
kxan ^ | Jan. 13, 2015 | KXAN News

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: drought
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To: 9422WMR

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.

21 posted on 01/14/2015 1:29:00 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: slouper

Good one!


22 posted on 01/14/2015 1:30:23 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Nervous Tick

Amen.


23 posted on 01/14/2015 1:30:46 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Nervous Tick

True that!


24 posted on 01/14/2015 3:45:08 PM PST by slouper (LWRC SPR 223)
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To: Nervous Tick

Ain’t no magazine called “Illinois Highways” either!


25 posted on 01/14/2015 10:37:52 PM PST by HonkyTonkMan
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To: slouper

Them piney sand dunes are as bad as the hill country desert!


26 posted on 01/14/2015 10:39:42 PM PST by HonkyTonkMan
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