Lake JB Thomas

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Lake Thomas is now,as of yesterday, at 42% capacity compared to just less than 1% a week ago. Borden County received over 15 inches of rain through Saturday, right where we needed it to rain. Lake Thomas shows to be at the highest level since 1987 and will continue to rise for around another week. Just thought I would include this in the good news section :)

God Bless!
 
Hot Dang!!!

It might be worth the trip down just to detour there to see that. There might be some old fishing cabins getting rebuilt after this.......
 
Do the Corp Turds run Ivie? And the CRMWD?

I know when lake Spence was built, they essentailly drained Thomas to keep it as full as possible and then when Ivie was built the same happened to Spence.
 
I was told that Spence has problems with cracks in the dam. That it wasn't safe to keep it anywhere near full. To be honest, I don't have a clue as to who has the last say on when and how much water is released from dams. I do know on at least two different occasions Proctor was backed up fifteen to twenty feet on their flood plain. It was on a legal easment. The corps refused to release the water for most of the summer, somthing about not flooding Belton. There were farmers who missed peanut crops and had to sell most of their cattle because of this.
 
Blue Bird":1vexxxj8 said:
I was told that Spence has problems with cracks in the dam. That it wasn't safe to keep it anywhere near full. To be honest, I don't have a clue as to who has the last say on when and how much water is released from dams.
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That's what I have heard too, but I my Dad had told me someone told him that the cracks in Spence's dam were not that bad, but the CRMWD board members who built Ivie are doing the same to Spence as those who built Spence did to Thomas.

It will all be moot if the weather cycle is changing back to what it was 30 years ago with more Pacific storms hitting Baja and dying in West Texas/NM/AZ. There will be plenty of water to keep all three lakes moderately full for a few years.
 
Praise God for the rain!

As far as Spence goes, I remember about 20 years ago they were dumping water out of it in order to save some little minnow downstream below the dam, or some such goofiness.
 
Yall ought to take a look at Lake Buchanan sometime.....
Or Travis..... or.....take your pick. There is a pipeline being built between San Saba & Goldthwaite to send send spring water from san saba's springs to it's arid northern neighbor.
LCRA is gradually creeping into controlling all the water in our area. Between them & TCEQ, it's pretty scary. We still have to send usage reports to TCEQ because the spring on our place was once used to irrigate. That was in the 1930's........ Can you say "bureaucracy"?
This is the epitome of Socialism. Taking from others for the good of the masses...........
 
Throw in the new constitutional amendments and they're slowly trying to take control of the Oglala Aquifer to send south. For the first time ever, they're putting restrictions on how much irrigation water we can pump up here. So much for owning your water rights.
 
smokeyjoe53":8gco9mpq said:
Yall ought to take a look at Lake Buchanan sometime.....
Or Travis..... or.....take your pick. There is a pipeline being built between San Saba & Goldthwaite to send send spring water from san saba's springs to it's arid northern neighbor.
LCRA is gradually creeping into controlling all the water in our area. Between them & TCEQ, it's pretty scary. We still have to send usage reports to TCEQ because the spring on our place was once used to irrigate. That was in the 1930's........ Can you say "bureaucracy"?
This is the epitome of Socialism. Taking from others for the good of the masses...........
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Last time I saw Buchanan 5 years ago, our old cabin was almost a quarter mile from water, and it is 75 ft from the normal level waterline.

Pitchforks.Torches.AR-15.AK-47.Tar.Feathers.

Maybe it's time again.
 
oldfat&bald":18ue1s39 said:
Throw in the new constitutional amendments and they're slowly trying to take control of the Oglala Aquifer to send south. For the first time ever, they're putting restrictions on how much irrigation water we can pump up here. So much for owning your water rights.
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Killing the goose that lays the long-term eggs. That's what 'crats do best. That and mission creep.
 
smokeyjoe53":1znxhlck said:
Biggest lie ever: "I'm from the government and I'm here to help".............
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It's the truth...from their perspective:

"I'm from the government and I'm here to help..." (myself to what you've built/earned/created, in order to give to the non-builders so they'll vote for me next time.)

See. Clear as it can be, as long as you know them well enough to read their mind...or what passes for one.

TexianDoc
Secede NOW!!!
 
Interesting how this topic begins about a lake and ends up about the government. Please, a topic about a lake is positive and one about our government is depressing and useless. Just my rant. Carry on.
 
Little Doc":zby22ouz said:
Interesting how this topic begins about a lake and ends up about the government. Please, a topic about a lake is positive and one about our government is depressing and useless. Just my rant. Carry on.
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