re: Central Texas about to lose a few man-made lakes

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“Your Majesty! The pesants (sic) are revolting!”

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Well, yeah. They rarely bathe, have no concept of basic hygiene, and no dental care.

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GetCocky11

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LSU beat Texas and they're blowing up the dams.

They should have left our AC on.

Red river drains in miss. Louisiana was purchased as all the land drained by the miss. Everything east of trinity river watershed and village creek is LA

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It’s crazy t think that the entire State of Texas has only one natural lake, everything else is man made

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There are very few natural inland lakes across the entirety of the southeast. It's not just Texas.

(Florida does have a shitload because the entire state is dissolving limestone)

What's the damn problem here?

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I guess the O-T's favorite state has shitty infrastructure as well.

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They are agreeing with you...

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More like shitty infrastructure maintenance.

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Nah, it's b/c of dumb shite hardliner conservatives in the state house. A lot of our infrastructure needs to be replaced as it's aged out but none of them have the balls or brains to admit there is stuff we need to raise taxes for until it's too late.

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In the Guadalupe River Valley, 40 miles northeast of San Antonio, six hydroelectric dams built in the late 1920s and early 1930s created Lakes Wood, Dunlap, Placid, McQueeney and Gonzales, as well as Meadow Lake. They were only supposed to last about 75 years — and that was 15 years ago. Because the dams don't produce much hydroelectric power, their main function now is to hold up the four lakes that are lined with hundreds of homes and are used daily for recreation, including water skiing tournaments.

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This is a familiar story surrounding water infrastructure all across the state. Flooding in South Texas last year and Hurricane Harvey in 2017 exposed gaps across Texas in the state’s flood protection systems, which experts say are often underfunded and allowed to decay for decades past their lifespans.

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Lack of funding for repairs is largely to blame. Because the dams aren't use for flood control, the river authority isn't eligible for state funding to maintain them and has struggled for decades to scrape together the cash to do so. (The Guadalupe River Valley dams don't produce enough electricity to be self-sustaining.)

As a result, river authority officials have done just enough maintenance on the dams to ensure they function, but it hasn't been enough to prevent floodgate collapses on Lake Wood in 2016 and Lake Dunlap in May. After the second dam failure, Gonzales said, the river authority scrambled to figure out its options.

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Lake McQueeney Almost seems like Pseudo-private lake and isn’t a reservoir. It’s it’s still doing anything hydroelectric is seems like they should have been raising rates (although one may be a restaurant now). If not these homeowners should have long been forming some kind of tax district to maintain dam.


I thought Dunlap and the rest were just a widening of the river.


The below is why state doesn’t fund repairs. They don’t serve a purpose to the public like flood control (if anything they make it worse right now) and waterfront area is dominated by the private homeowners that live on them. If the state was stopping them from taking over it would be one thing, but even though it sucks for them it seems like this has been writing on wall for a while but Hurricane sped it up, and a tax district should have been created.

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Because the dams aren't used for flood control, the river authority isn't eligible for state funding to maintain them and has struggled for decades to scrape together the cash to do so. (The Guadalupe River Valley dams don't produce enough electricity to be self-sustaining.)

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For ones that are involved in flood control. Harris county is also undertaking a huge project to fix their problems. They also have Corp money coming in.

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Researchers say the state and Harris County are making progress on long-overdue repairs two years after the hurricane. The Texas Legislature approved funding to bolster flood infrastructure this spring, and the county is utilizing a $2.5 billion bond passed on the first anniversary of the hurricane to support flood mitigation.

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I guess the O-T's favorite state has shitty infrastructure as well

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Not to shite talk my beloved Cajun brethren but there’s a big difference between realizing there’s a problem coming then doing something about it and learning of shitty infrastructure during historic flooding.