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SEA TOW Veteran Austin Boater Offline Free Towing For Members!!! Posts: 270 Central Texas Gender:	Lowering of Lake Austin Nov 15^th, 2010 at 10:00am It sounds like Lake Austin will be lowered around Jan. 3, 2011.
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nathan Lake Admiral Offline Going Home !!!!! Posts: 2120 Leander, TX Soon Gender:	Re: Lowering of Lake Austin Reply #1 - Nov 15^th, 2010 at 6:31pm yep time to kill some hydrilla.
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Shaka Veteran Austin Boater Offline Austin Boater Posts: 282 Round Rock, Texas Gender:	Re: Lowering of Lake Austin Reply #2 - Nov 16^th, 2010 at 7:45am I don't think they did it last year and you could really tell. IMO, it needs to be done every year and not every other year. My kids hate the stuff and it can be a bitch if you get caught up in the stuff (swimming and prop wise). I once threw a prop hub on a Michigan Wheel and I thought I had lost my outdrive.
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Captain YARRR Admin Offline Doing the rain dance Posts: 2587 Round Rock, TX Gender:	Re: Lowering of Lake Austin Reply #3 - Nov 16^th, 2010 at 8:24am Ouch, that's got to be a nasty feeling. Do the homeowners complain about it lowering?
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Re: Lowering of Lake Austin
Reply #4 - Nov 17^th, 2010 at 3:04pm

Captain YARRR wrote on Nov 16^th, 2010 at 8:24am:

Ouch, that's got to be a nasty feeling.

Do the homeowners complain about it lowering?

Actually I think they prefer to have it lowered every year. It gives them an opportunity to do dock and bulkhead work, remove debris as well as kill the hydrilla.

Once the lake is lowered, all you need is one overnight freeze and it will make a big difference the following summer. What sucks is when they lower the lake for 2-3 weeks and we have pretty weather the entire time. Need the freeze to really do some hydrilla damage.

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Re: Lowering of Lake Austin
Reply #5 - Dec 18^th, 2010 at 9:39am

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SEA TOW Veteran Austin Boater Offline Free Towing For Members!!! Posts: 270 Central Texas Gender:	Re: Lowering of Lake Austin Reply #6 - Jan 3^rd, 2011 at 3:42pm Just got done with some jobs on the lake and spoke to the officials. They say it has dropped a foot and estimate a 3/4 foot drop per day. All the ramps are padlocked. The Walsh Landing Ramp was already a pain to use.
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Captain YARRR Admin Offline Doing the rain dance Posts: 2587 Round Rock, TX Gender:	Re: Lowering of Lake Austin Reply #7 - Jan 4^th, 2011 at 8:29am It looks like we'll be getting some nice cold weather
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