LCRA may limit customers to once-a-week outdoor watering beginning in March

AUSTIN — The Lower Colorado River Authority likely will move to Stage 2 of its drought response in early March, which would require all LCRA firm water customers to increase water saving measures and limit outdoor watering to no more than once a week.

LCRA was last in Stage 2 of its drought response from August 2023 through June 2024.

On Thursday, combined storage of lakes Buchanan and Travis, the two water storage reservoirs in the Highland Lakes, stood at 1.016 million acre-feet, or about 51% of capacity.