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The floodgates of Buchanan Dam was recently refurbished by the Lower Colorado River Authority. The $51.1 million dollar project that took over a decade to complete involved extensive rehabilitation… ...
BUCHANAN DAM. The only open floodgate was closed at noon on Tuesday. ... This dam has no floodgates. As water releases from the Buchanan Dam decrease Tuesday, water fell below the spillway.
TEXAS, USA — The Lower Colorado River Authority, or LCRA, announced Thursday it had completed a more than 12-year, $51.1 million project to upgrade the floodgates at Buchanan Dam. The LCRA said ...
All floodgates at Buchanan and Wirtz dams have been closed, the Lower Colorado River Authority announced on Tuesday. Buchanan Dam is the farthest upstream on the Highland Lakes, which the LCRA mana… ...
Floodgates at Wirtz Dam, which forms Lake LBJ upstream from Austin on the Colorado River, will be replaced in a $76 million, three-year project, the Lower Colorado River Authority announced ...
By Oct. 23, all floodgates at Buchanan Dam closed. Aerial video @ 11 AM CT at Buchanan Dam releasing into Inks Lake (Colorado River). 5 of 30 floodgates open during video. As of this writing, 8 of ...
No floodgates are expected to be opened at Mansfield Dam on Lake Travis, as the lake has substantial capacity to store the incoming water. Tomasco estimates Lake Travis could rise by about five ...
River authorities opened floodgates at Wirtz Dam and Starcke Dam early Wednesday to move storm runoff downstream into Lake ... The last time Lake Travis and Lake Buchanan were full was in July 2019.