LCRA plans to build two electric generating units at LCRA’s natural gas-fired peaker Timmerman Power Plant in Caldwell County, with the first unit expected to be online later this year.

The new plant will be the second peaker plant in LCRA’s generation fleet. LCRA also owns and operates Winchester Power Park, a 184-MW natural-gas fired peaker plant in Fayette County.

The Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) announced on Wednesday it has begun the $76 million, three-year project at the dam. The dam, which forms Lake LBJ, was completed in 1951 with nine floodgates.

The LCRA said it is now in Stage 1 of its drought contingency plan and it is requesting that its firm customers – mostly water districts, municipalities and industries – to reduce water use by 5%.

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 ...

LCRA said Stage 2 would remain in effect until the combined storage of lakes Buchanan and Travis increases to at least 1.1 million acre-feet, or about 55% of capacity.

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 ...

On Monday, the LCRA opened the floodgates at Lake Buchanan for the first time since 2019 to release storm runoff. They now say that all floodgates at Buchanan Dam are closed.