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LCRA releasing water for duck hunting...seriously
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http://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/lcra-to-release-more-water-downstream
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Sep 10
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HARSH criticism wasn't so much for the Matagorda Bay estuaries as it was for the supplemental water for stinking DUCK HUNTING PONDS which KXAN failed to mention (even though I mentioned it several times during my interview).
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I'm sure there were low levels (droughts) in those areas before the river was ever controlled and the "endangered" species came back just fine; let nature run its course. Seems like LCRA is doing everything they can at this point to hit that drought of record mark. They are either truly incompetent or just love all the attention the past few years...or both!!
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I just did a lot of reading on the LCRA site. Lots of info. Lots of facts but NO WHERE did I see anything showing how much water goes where.
Change is needed. Just because something has been going on for 100 years does not mean it is right or responsible now.
Record drought , record low in flow, Did they show or admit record release rates? Of course not?
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IMO the two over riding issues that are not be addressed are
First the irresponsible use for growing rice. I don't understand how any reasonable party would let this continue.
Second, there is no plan in place if it does not rain other than prayer.
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Were is were it went
Clearly the majority is for agriculture. 2012 the TCEQ intervened
http://www.lcra.org/library/media/public/docs/water/supply/Water-Use-Supply-2012...
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we have the same thing going on here. the Dow chemical plant in Freeport wants the water from Waco lake and others along the Brazos river. originally Waco said no because their rights to the water has been in place longer than Dow's. but the state has stepped in and ordered the lakes allow water to flow to Dow's plant.
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First the irresponsible use for growing rice. I don't understand how any reasonable party would let this continue.
It is absolutely insane...they need to be bought out or something then completely stripped of rights for water. I understand it is people's livelihood but there needs to be a transition away for the greater good.
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LCRA is following guide lines set many years ago. They are not the ones to complain to.
Complaints should be directed to TCEQ Homepage
The guidelines need to be changed and they are the ones to do it.
The river can not support everything being demanded from it. Namely the irresponsible use of flooding fields for rice. Just because it has been do this way for 100 years means nothing now. Water is too precious to use irresponsible.
Things come and go all the time during the course of history. Recently a few examples are pay phones and the space shuttle. Their useful life came and went just as rice farming in Texas has come, lived a long life and now has to go.
Focus on what will bring change. TCEQ has the power to bring that change if anyone does.
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First the irresponsible use for growing rice. I don't understand how any reasonable party would let this continue.
Seems to me, rice farming in Texas is a lost cause. Why anyone would want a rice farm in the most drought ridden state is beyond me. Not sure what all it takes to grow rice, besides a bunch of water, but surely they could find a state that doesn't suffer from ten year droughts to farm.
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A "bunch" of water for growing rice in Wharton, Colorado and Matagorda counties is roughly three times the annual water usage of the city of Austin and surrounding cities supplied by the city of Austin. In 2011, while the rice farmers used 450,000 Ac ft of lake water, the city of Austin used 125,000 Ac ft. There are right around 200 total rice farms in the three counties and well over 1 million people in the city of Austin.
The city of Austin pays over $150 per ac ft of water. Rice farmers pay less than $10 per Ac ft.
The city of Austin was incorporated roughly 50 years before the first rice farm showed up on the lower Colorado River.
I could go on...and on....and on....
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Sep 18
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A good read.
http://withoutapaddleblog.com/2013/09/16/whiskeys-for-drinkin-waters-for-fightin...
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Sep 18
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More info
http://hydromet.lcra.org/lakevolume/systemprofile.aspx
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What does this mean for the Austin area?
http://www.chron.com/news/science-environment/article/River-authority-OKs-plan-t...
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