LCRA considering firm water restrictions

The Lower Colorado River Authority is considering requiring its firm water customers to adopt a maximum once-per-week watering schedule that would apply anytime the combined storage of lakes Buchanan and Travis falls below 900,000 acre-feet, or 45% of capacity, including this spring if combined storage is below that level.

Customers are urged to monitor combined storage, which currently is below 900,000 acre-feet, on LCRA’s River Operations Report.

The proposed new watering requirement also would apply to LCRA domestic, temporary, landscape irrigation and recreational use customers.