Flood killed lake for a while

TX H210SS · **Joined:** Thu May 27, 2010 9:10 am **Posts:** 1488

We had 17 inches of rain that put the usual lake over the spillway. ..lake will be shut down for a while. Not to mention the river has been flooding homes around here.

ThaScoobs · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2016 11:04 am

That stinks, it seems every summer there is a lake around here that gets shut down from the rain. A couple summers ago a really popular lake was slow no wake for over a month. Good for the fisherman.

LVChris · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2016 12:18 pm

And we have the opposite problems with similar results...no water...lake at the lowest it's been since 1938 and they have to dredge the canal again just so we can get a boat on the lake.

Jdpber · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2016 2:02 pm

that is not a dredge thats an excavator. get your machinery correct. geezzzzzz

LVChris · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2016 3:48 pm

Jdpber wrote:

that is not a dredge thats an excavator. get your machinery correct. geezzzzzz

isn't that what an excavator does "dredge"?

wait ...

verb
verb: dredge; 3rd person present: dredges; past tense: dredged; past participle: dredged; gerund or present participle: dredging

1. clean out the bed of (a harbor, river, or other area of water) by scooping out mud, weeds, and rubbish with a dredge.
•bring up or clear (something) from a river, harbor, or other area of water with a dredge.
"mud was dredged out of the harbor"

•bring to people's attention an unpleasant or embarrassing fact or incident that had been forgotten.
"I don't understand why you had to dredge up this story"

noun
noun: dredge; plural noun: dredges

1. an apparatus for bringing up objects or mud from a river or seabed by scooping or dragging.

rpengr · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2016 4:13 pm

The excavator in that picture is performing the task of dredging.

Since LVchris was referring to the task, not the machine...he was correct in the first place.

kmack · **Posted:** Wed Jun 08, 2016 11:48 pm

Yeah, I heard Lake Travis in Austin is temporarily closed due to high water levels. Too many "items" submerged under water to create potential boat damage issues.

Canyon Lake is over capacity, and Medina Lake was flowing over the spill way the other day (hasn't done that since '98)!!!

I'll be at Lake Georgetown next week. Hopefully it'll still be open.

TX H210SS · **Joined:** Thu May 27, 2010 9:10 am **Posts:** 1488

Yep...Medina properties have started getting snatched up now that lakefront is actually lakefront. Wonder if the Carlos n Charlie's on Travis is opened back up.

kmack · **Posted:** Fri Jun 17, 2016 3:55 pm

Lake Georgetown was at least 6' above full. All boat ramps were still in use but the ramps to the courtesy docks were all under water and unusable.

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