With thunderstorms already showering Austin and possible every day this week, the Lower Colorado River Authority is pushing water through two floodgates at Wirtz Dam, which forms Lake LBJ ...

The Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) has opened floodgates at two dams upstream from Lake Travis as water levels rise following recent heavy rainfall in Central Texas. As of Wednesday morning ...

“Because Lake LBJ is a hydroelectric (dam) and a source of cooling water for a power plant, it has no flood control storage or water supply storage, and so whatever comes into that reservoir has ...