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Surface elevation 825 ft (251 m) Lake Lyndon B. Johnson (more commonly referred to as Lake LBJ and originally named Lake Granite Shoals ) is a reservoir on the Colorado River in the Texas Hill Country about 45 miles northwest of Austin .
Water levels in wells across Texas are running low because of the extreme drought, groundwater experts say. Drought conditions in the state are getting worse by the week.
Lake Buchanan was the first of the Texas Highland Lakes to be formed, and with 22,333 acres (34.9 sq mi; 90.4 km 2) of surface water, it is also the largest. The surface of the lake includes area in both Burnet and Llano Counties. The lake is west of the city of Burnet, Texas.
Water volume: 382,000 acre⋅ft (0.471 km 3) Shore length 1: 80 mi (130 km) Surface elevation: ... 2023, Canyon Lake dropped to its lowest pool level on record. [3 ...
The level of the lake can vary dramatically—with an over 96-foot range between its historical high and low—depending on the amount of rainfall in the Colorado River basin upstream. [19] The historic high level on the lake was 710.4 feet (216.5 m) above msl on December 25, 1991, a little less than four feet below the dam's top/spillway at ...
In 2011, water withdrawals from Lake Meredith temporarily ceased and on August 7, 2013 the lake reached its all-time low 26.14 feet (7.97 m). [2] [3] The record high capacity was in April 1973 when the lake was 101.85 ft deep. Lake depth as of October 14, 2017 was 73.12 ft deep. Lake depth as of June 17, 2019 was 77.03 ft deep.
Lake Livingston has a surface area of 83,000 acres (360 km 2) and impounds 1,750,000 acre-feet (2.16 km 3) of water at its normal pool elevation of 131 feet (40 m) above mean sea level. The average depth of the lake is 23 feet (7 m) with a maximum depth of 90 feet (27 m).
The river crested at 39.9 feet, its highest level in more than 80 years and just 1.5 feet below its record high of 41.5 ft, set in 1935. The high flow rate caused the RM 2900 bridge in Kingsland to collapse [ 8 ] and what used to be a two-minute drive across town became a 40-50 minute drive.