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Lake Travis Update
Apr 19th, 2013 at 7:45pm
 
Water cutoff bill voted out of committee

April 10, 2013, 10:00 am by James Walker



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LCRA Board Chairman Tim Timmerman


Updated at 10 a.m. Wednesday

AUSTIN _ The Texas senate's Natural Resources Committee Tuesday approved a bill that mandates that the Lower Colorado River Authority curtail water to interruptible customers such as downstream rice farmers before mandating or even asking that firm customers, such as the cities of Austin and Burnet, to conserve water when the combined storage of the Lake Buchanan and Lake Travis reservoirs fall below 850,000 acre feet.

The vote on SB 1631 co-sponsored by Natural Resources Committee chairman Troy Fraser (R-Horseshoe Bay) and Sen. Kirk Watson (D-Austin) was 8-3 and came at about 5 p.m. after more than four hours of testimony from rice farmer and firm customer representatives and LCRA board chairman Tim Timmerman during at a standing-room only hearing earlier in the day.


Timmerman acknowledged in response to questioning from Fraser and Watson that it was a mistake for the LCRA to release more than 430,000 acre feet of water from the Highland Lakes for use by downstream rice farmers in 2011 during one of the driest and hottest periods in recorded state history.

‘I think we all agree we should not have released 430,000 acre feet downstream to the irrigators,” Timmerman said.

The bill next moves to the full Senate for debate and a vote, but a time has not been set.

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Lower Colorado River Authority board of directors Chairman Tim Timmerman acknowledged Monday at a Texas Senate hearing that it was a mistake for the authority to release more than 430,000 acre feet of water from the Highland Lakes for use by downstream rice farmers in 2011 during one of the driest and hottest periods in recorded state history.
‘I think we all agree we should not have released 430,000 acre feet downstream to the irrigat
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Reply #1 - Apr 22nd, 2013 at 5:06pm
 
Yeah, glad they can now see how brilliant they were, releasing half the lake to rice farmers.

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Reply #2 - May 4th, 2013 at 8:31pm
 
Brainiacs they are.
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Reply #3 - May 5th, 2013 at 12:11am
 
Stimulus Package wrote on Apr 19th, 2013 at 7:45pm:
"I think we all agree we should not have released 430,000 acre feet downstream to the irrigators,” Timmerman said.


Quote of the decade right there.
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Reply #4 - May 5th, 2013 at 12:12am
 
Ha...no shit...terrible thing is it might be a decade before we recover
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Reply #5 - May 7th, 2013 at 4:03pm
 
Im still in agreance that the LCRA buys the rice farms....cause really who builds or wants rice farms in one of the dryest parts of Texas....
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Reply #6 - May 8th, 2013 at 8:27am
 
No kidding, absolutely insane. Vietnam sure, Texas...not so much Smiley
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