Thanks to recent rains, Lake Travis is filling up again.
Every drop counts, and more rain is on the way!
Lake Travis Recharged by Recent Rains
Lake Travis is now at its highest level since June of last year because of the heavy rains.
LCRA hydrologists are forecasting the lake to rise to an elevation of about 662 to 664 feet above sea level by this weekend.
That’s about 8-and-a-half to 10-and-a-half feet above where the lake’s level was when the rain started on Sunday.
"We passed that water on through Lake LBJ and into Lake Buchanan on down into Lake Travis. The reason for the floogates is so much rain fell so quickly that all that water rushed into the lake really quick. We wanted to keep the level of Lake LBJ from rising very fast,” LCRA meteorologist Bob Rose said.
Lake Travis is still 13 feet below its average elevation for March.
But LCRA says by the end of this round of storms, about 120,000 acre-feet of water will have been captured in lakes Buchanan and Travis combined.
That’s the equivalent of the amount of water used by the City of Austin alone in about a year.
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