Austin lake dried up

Skip to content. Dallas 40 mins ago. Dallas Zoo 1 hour ago. Back to Article. And I like how grass is already growing where there shouldn't be grass! Whether you're buying or selling an Austin home, I'll be with you every step of the way. For real time Lake Austin TX listing s, click here. You may re-blog with links back to this post. Donna-This is incredible, one would have no idea but the stats from the Mansfield dam makes you put it all in perspective.

Donna sounds like you could use some of the rain that we have been getting. This year has been the wettest year for us that I can ever remember.

We love Lake Travis and will pray you get rain as well as us. What a strange weather year. Places like Virginia having the wettest year and other places like us in a drought. Hi Donna, We Californians can certainly identify with your need for rain. We are not hopeful that rain will come any time fore late in the year. We usually only get drizzles and no heavy rains like I remember in Texas and the Midwest when growing up. We are so dry and the fire season comes in month and with our reservoirs so low, it could be another tragic year for homes being lost farms closing and water is just not available.

And then you read of the of the efforts here in California to prevent desalination and other methods of getting water here. So we all have our issues with water and we all need some solutions to end the droughts affecting the lives it touches. Hi Donna - I can empathize. A recent trip to Lake Tahoe showed the water level down quite a bit, and the shallows at the north end are bone dry now. Above, normal conditions. Below, drought conditions.

The carcass of a cow that became mired in the mud in a dry stock tank in Knox County, Texas during the summer drought. The sky stained red over the Bastrop fire, which burned more than 34, acres in September Current page: Page 1.

The piece of the spill gate is still sitting on the bank by the dam, rusting and serving as a constant reminder of the dewatering of Lake Wood. The six dams on the river system maintained by the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority were built in the late '20s, making them nearly a century old.

With the spill gate failure at the dam at Lake Dunlap on May 14, the community hopes it will be what it takes to move forward with improvements on Lake Wood dam. GBRA said engineering designs are underway to improve all six dams on their river system, but moving forward with improvements depends on funding.

That's what we're hoping for," Solansky said.