Lake Travis update

I guess it is just Hornian and I left posting on this thread. Hopefully we are providing info that some people use/like. Anyway...

Here is another good link I found on the LCRA site. If you scroll down to the "Highland Lakes Summary" section, it tells how long water was released the previous day. Unless the lake is in flood stage, whatever was released was mandated for electric production, which is mandated by a state power agency.
 
Travis is at something like 673.3 right now. The 10 day forecast looks pretty wet. I'd like to see 680, so that the lake does well even if we get a dry summer.
 
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I'm heading to Devils Cove today, rain or shine. I will report back the gloriousness of a filled up lake.

Lake is at 678.59 right now. And rising. It has been three years since it had that much water in it.
 
that is awesome! we are building a new house that sits on a cove off lake travis and it has been incredible to watch the cove fill up this spring. we were starting to worry that our lake front property was the product of some realtor's imagination but much to our satisfaction, we really do have lakefront! lol!

we have about 20 feet deep of water in our cove now. its going to be great to see it fill up the remaining 5-6 feet.

loving the wet weather!

jason
 
Just went and checked. 681.33 at 6:38 am (and OU still sucks). Lake is officially full. And its raining right now. Killer.
 
That's amazing.

I was at Medina Lake this weekend at a friend of ours lake house. The lake was about 20 feet low on Friday. On Friday night we had to manually move his dock because the top part was starting to get underwater. On Saturday afternoon we had to move the dock again. Before we left on Sunday noon, we had to move it again. My guess is that the lake raised about 6 feet in the weekend.
 
We were at Emerald Point/Carlos and Charlie's Saturday and Sunday. Yesterday the water rose between the time we set out and the time we got back from the Cove. We then slept on the boat and the lake rose more overnight.

At 8:00 this morning, a section the gangway ramp at Cypress Creek Marina was broken loose due to the rise and sat down in the water.

Current level 682.3 but they are churning the electric generators.
 
Max reading: 682.5
Last Reading: 682.32

Uh-oh, the lake level is starting to fall. Be down to 540 by this time next week.
 
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They're expecting it to be back down to 681 by monday morning.

Anyone been out today or yesterday? Has the debris gone down some? My wakeboarding fever is rising..
 
LCRA has a pretty good article on the end of the drought and the rapid rise of the lakes: The Link

And they have some pretty good pictures of the change in the lake level over the past 6 months.

Mansfield Dam Park in January:
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Mansfield Dam Park in June:
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Even with all of this rain that has filled the lakes, we have still been able to hit the Lake on Saturdays. Until today. Big cell moving in right now.

Most of the Buchanan basin got 3+ inches yesterday, which will have it at "full" (1018) by tonight or early tomorrow.

The Travis basin got between 1.5 and 2.5 inches yesterday. Lkae Travis dipped below 681 for a few days but crossed back over around 6:00 AM today. They have already announced electric release and depending on how much falls this afternoon, they may open a floodgate.

Since the 4th of July falls on a Wed., there will probably be big groups out on the weekend before and after. The lake is in perfect condition for it.
 
I'm surprised nobody built a few houses on the Sometimes Islands.
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Lake Travis was a lot lower (616') at the end of the 1952 drought.
 
From this morning...

Mansfield- Pictures explain themselves.
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Paradise Cove Marina- There is typically a road that goes a few hundred feet further.
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I went out to check on things at my lake house that is on Hudson's Bend. The house is fine, but the lake is amazingly full. Just reading "692 feet" doesn't do it justice.

Windy Point is under water.

The sign at the Austin Yacht Club is halfway submerged.

The boat ram in our private park is almost completely underwater.

It's crazy.
 
We went out to Carlos and Charlie's just so we could say we've been there when it was actually floating. It is higher than I have ever seen it there and it rose a foot and a half while we were there. No joke and not exaggerating.

For those of you who know the place, check this out.

The stairs that go down towards the courtesy slips and C dock, etc, the ones that go in between the big stacked stones, behind the stage out in the palapa bar...the ramp is essentially flat from the parking lot to the gang plank out to the docks. It's hard to describe but it is INSANE. The light poles that are on the sidewalks out to the courtesy docks are about 3 feet from being submerged. You have to walk up a few stairs and then a steep ramp to get from the parking lot into the front door, Craziness. The sand volleyball net on the back beach and the outdoor bars back there are under water. The stage that 10,000 Maniacs were supposed to play on Friday night is submerged.

Old school lake rats who don't live out there anymore should go check it out.
 
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