To commemorate the 30th anniversary of LCRA’s community grants program, LCRA will award two $100,000 grants – one following ...

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.

River authorities opened floodgates at Wirtz Dam and Starcke Dam early Wednesday to move storm runoff downstream into Lake Travis. The runoff is filling Lake Lyndon B. Johnson from the Llano River ...

LCRA said early Wednesday two floodgates at Wirtz Dam had been opened. Three floodgates at Max Starcke Dam were also opened to move the runoff downstream into Lake Travis. //www.kxan.com ...

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 ...

The LCRA, which runs the dams, uses them to manage the sometimes flood-swollen river and generate hydroelectric power. On a side note: Lady Bird Lake is not one of the Highland Lakes.

LCRA operates and maintains the dam on a long-term lease agreement with the city “for the benefit of Austin and the people of Central Texas,” LCRA says. Since 2010, ...

The solar power will supplement LCRA’s other renewable energy, including 295 MW available from hydroelectric generation at dams along the Highland Lakes and 10 MW from a south Texas solar plant ...

LCRA spokeswoman Clara Tuma said the agency also could close floodgates later this week at Mansfield and Tom Miller dams, which form the Austin-area lakes Travis and Austin.

There has been a lot of talk about the Highland Lakes over the past week, but do you know who controls them, what their names are, and where they are located?