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Cobalt Blue Land Lubber Offline Austin Boater Posts: 23	Recent Devil's Cove Pictures Nov 7^th, 2011 at 9:52pm These are from October 2011. OK, a little depressing. Is anyone missing 1,000 empy beer cans? Hopefully this link works... http://www.flickr.com/photos/rmp_texas/sets/72157627927956172/
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Wake man Lake Captain Offline Austin Boater Posts: 687 Gender:	Re: Recent Devil's Cove Pictures Reply #1 - Nov 7^th, 2011 at 10:19pm That is so sad. I get so mad when I see people sink beers. I might be interested in a clean up if someone organizes it.
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nathan Lake Admiral Offline Going Home !!!!! Posts: 2120 Leander, TX Soon Gender:	Re: Recent Devil's Cove Pictures Reply #2 - Nov 8^th, 2011 at 6:59am it is sad! I saw the same thing near jones broters park the last time we were down there when the lake was low. makes no sense to me.
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In2Deep Veteran Austin Boater Offline Lake Travis / LOTO Boater Posts: 442 Lake Travis/ LOTO Gender:	Re: Recent Devil's Cove Pictures Reply #3 - Nov 8^th, 2011 at 11:41am That's inexcusible.
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Cobalt Blue Land Lubber Offline Austin Boater Posts: 23	Re: Recent Devil's Cove Pictures Reply #4 - Nov 8^th, 2011 at 8:54pm Yeah, I don't get it. When the Jonestown tie-up and noise restrictions were being debated all we heard was how this cove "belongs to everyone". Well "everyone" is treating it like a dump.
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Captain YARRR Admin Offline Doing the rain dance Posts: 2587 Round Rock, TX Gender:	Re: Recent Devil's Cove Pictures Reply #5 - Nov 8^th, 2011 at 10:34pm I wouldn't be surprised if that is 40 years worth of Bud Light cans etc. Does LCRA have some community service people available to pick up trash instead of highways? That is a very fertile trash ground. Still not as bad as an "Occupy" rally.
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Hula Boat Care Veteran Austin Boater Offline What Rocks Your Boat? Posts: 302 Lakeway, TX. Gender:	Re: Recent Devil's Cove Pictures Reply #6 - Nov 9^th, 2011 at 8:10pm That is crazy to think people who come out to enjoy the water, scenery etc can't be bothered to take their empties home instead of dumping them over board
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Wake man Lake Captain Offline Austin Boater Posts: 687 Gender:	Re: Recent Devil's Cove Pictures Reply #7 - Nov 9^th, 2011 at 11:34pm We keep a roll of trash bags in the boat at all times
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Nitro1 Austin Boater Offline Faster than you Posts: 244 Devil's Cove	Re: Recent Devil's Cove Pictures Reply #8 - Nov 10^th, 2011 at 6:33pm Eeeeeek, now I feel bad for when I was a kid...
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RobyW1 Land Lubber Offline Austin Boater Posts: 7	Re: Recent Devil's Cove Pictures Reply #9 - Nov 13^th, 2011 at 10:24am I think an organized clean-up project would be great and I will take part. Perhaps the sooner this is cleaned up the higher power upstairs will begin filling the lake again.
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Reply #10 - Nov 13^th, 2011 at 11:35am

Cleaning up the cove would be great but it would not change anything with the lake level. Only thing that will help that is a lot of rain. Travis' problem comes from the fact that it is feed by a constant level lake to the north (lake LBJ) and it feeds a constant level lake to the south (lake austin). These have been that way and laws are in place to keep them that way so while they stay high travis drains. Plus that there are rice farmer down stream and the river walk in sa that have contracts for so much of the water in travis. It seems that the only thing that does not have a contact for water is travis itself. So inless lbj and austin drop their levels and the river walk and rice farmer take a vacation the only thing that is going help is rain and lots of it.

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Reply #11 - Nov 14^th, 2011 at 8:11pm

RobyW1 wrote on Nov 13^th, 2011 at 10:24am:

I think an organized clean-up project would be great and I will take part. Perhaps the sooner this is cleaned up the higher power upstairs will begin filling the lake again.

I agree, I am a big believer in lake karma...it could only help. At the very least we would feel good about a cleaner cove.

I would HOPE this is a rare opportunity to clean it up.

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SEA TOW Veteran Austin Boater Offline Free Towing For Members!!! Posts: 270 Central Texas Gender:	Re: Recent Devil's Cove Pictures Reply #12 - Nov 14^th, 2011 at 8:20pm Could tie in a clean up with toys for tots too. Maybe find some sponsors to donate toys per pound of trash collected. I could probably sponsor as well.
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Reply #13 - Nov 22^nd, 2011 at 3:02am

Lake Travis feeds the Riverwalk?

The LCRA getting the state to agree to two trigger points a year to release or not release water for the rice farmers is huge. Simply put the LCRA should not have released water this fall for the second rice harvest. But that decision had been made in February of this past year. With two decision triggers the Fall lake release would never have happened.

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Reply #14 - Nov 22^nd, 2011 at 7:09am

Stimulus Package wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2011 at 3:02am:

Lake Travis feeds the Riverwalk?

I didn't know that either until some time in 2009 when we had the other bad drought SAWS (that run the riverwalk) was going to take the LCRA to court for breaking the contact they had for water from lake travis to supply the riverwalk. LCRA was trying to reduce the water it was letting out of travis. the riverwalk is part of the colorado river chain.

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