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Board members praised the LCRA staff for managing the water. “The things this team did to serve their fellow man is really admirable,” board member Franklin Scott Spears Jr. said Wednesday.
The LCRA has mailed application packages to high schools in its 60-county Central Texas service area. The deadline for applications is the close of business Feb. 9, 2000. "We want schools ...
LCRA is warning its firm water customers that it will likely be moving to Stage 2 of its drought response in early March, which will mean watering restrictions and efforts to conserve water.
The restrictions will remain in place for all LCRA customers until water levels in Lake Travis and Lake Buchanan go above 1.1 million acre-feet.
According to the LCRA, customers include municipalities, industries and temporary water users who must have a firm water supply contract to use water from the Highland Lakes or lower Colorado River.
LCRA described firm customers as primarily municipalities, water districts and industries that purchase water that will be available even during a repeat of the worst drought this region has seen ...
In total, LCRA’s 10 senior executives – all white men, overseen by a 15-member all-white board – earned about $440,000 in bonuses in 2015, up from about $155,000 in 2014, ...
Months after contract disputes escalated to lawsuits, Lower Colorado River Authority officials met Wednesday with an alliance of its customers-turned-defendants, including some in the San Antonio ...
LCRA awards more than $730,000 in community grants. Staff report. The Lower Colorado River Authority recently awarded more than $730,000 in Community Development Partnership Program grants for a ...
The LCRA on Monday moved from Stage 2 to Stage 1 of its drought response thanks to an increase to two water supply reservoirs — lakes Buchanan and Travis — whose combined storage has increased ...
LCRA General Manager Phil Wilson said one of the biggest challenges is the 1-30 corridor. "If you go from Buda, Kyle … north towards Hutto, ...