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Im planning a jet ski ride on the Brazos, wanted to do it last year but there wasnt enough water for half of it.Originally posted by mardyn View Post
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Ill try to snap a pic later of Lake Ray Hubbard after this rain lets up, but this was 2/14/15: (before the rain dump)
The main road with cars is 66, the closer bridge was old 66, it was completely submerged for a long time before the water levels started going down.
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Star-Telegram reported that Lake Arlington had risen by 3 feet. A lot of lakes in the immediate DFW area got a lot of rain, yet lakes around Palo Pinto are still hanging around 9% of capacity.Comment
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nuke the Zebra Mussels
Cliff NotesOriginally posted by jimithing View Post
The new closed pipeline from Lake Texoma has slowed the water level at Lake Lavon.
Water from Lake Texoma could be back in North Texas homes soon
Texoma, about 75 miles north of Dallas, was a significant source of water for the North Texas Municipal Water District for almost two decades before invasive zebra mussels found a home in the lake in 2009. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, hoping to keep the mussels out of the Trinity River system, cut off the flow from Texoma until the water district could rebuild its Texoma-to-Lavon delivery system.
Back in the 1980s, when zebra mussels were still home in Eastern Europe, the water district built a pipeline that carried Texoma water for about 25 miles before spilling it into the west prong of Sister Grove Creek and eventually into Lavon. But with the mussels settled in at Lake Texoma, the Corps of Engineers ordered the district to build a closed system. They wanted pipelines to carry the water from the lake to the district’s treatment plant with no chance of it leaking into the Trinity system. Restoring the Texoma supply comes at a critical time. Over the last six years, the Dallas-Fort Worth region has lost the equivalent of a year’s worth of rainfall, about 36 inches, due to drought. Coupled with hotter than normal summers, the water supply took a significant hit.
The North Texas Municipal Water District, which serves about 1.6 million customers north and east of Dallas, including some of the fastest-growing cities in the U.S., had to impose tough water restrictions on its customers. Adding Texoma to the water mix this summer probably won’t change that without significant rainfall during the driest months of the year. Texoma’s water also comes with complications. It’s salty, much more so than the district’s other supply sources. “It has about three or four times the salinity,” Rickman said, “so if you use Texoma as a supply source, you have to desalinate it or blend it with better water sources.”
The water district mixes the salty water with sweeter water from Lavon and the district’s other supply lakes at new blending facilities at the Wylie treatment plant. Optimally, the final ratio of sweet to salt is 4:1 to 5:1, Rickman said. The district has plans for increasing its water supply with a new lake, the planned Bois d’Arc Creek Reservoir in Fannin County. But that project still awaits permits and is not expected to be online before 2020. The district intends to build a new treatment plant in Leonard, close to the lake. That plant will also treat additional supplies from Texoma, Rickman said.
$300 Million Texoma Pipeline Operational
The NTMWD lost a quarter of its water supply five years ago when zebra mussels forced the district to stop using water from Lake Texoma. In response, the district built a new $300 million pipeline down to Wylie to provide a trickle down effect for drought relief. Texoma water used to flow into Lake Lavon, but because of the zebra mussels, the new pipeline takes water around it. Water from both lakes is blended at the treatment plant since water from Lake Texoma is too salty to drink. Thus, the pipeline won’t help elevate Lake Lavon’s astonishingly low lake level, and as it continues to dry up, the Texoma pipeline will pump 75 million gallons a day. That’s about a quarter of the water supply flowing into North Texas for the first time in five years.Comment
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Nice, If you end up on the main lake around B Bluff come in the cove to the right of it and look around.. White/Blue Air Nautique or Couple Red/White/Black Polaris Jet Skis is me.Originally posted by mardyn View Post
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If the river is good and you plan one lemme know... We didn't do it this past summer due to water levels and time constraints but we usually do a jet ski trip until we run out of water once or twice a summer.Originally posted by Baron Von Crowder View Post
One year during the flood me and a couple buddies went up cedron creek until we ended up in a pasture with a rancher working his cows. He was a good sport and didn't shoot us after he told me we had rode over two of his fence lines beneath the water.Comment
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Oh for sure, I read about it, but it would be cool to have a guide, so to speak.Originally posted by Treybiz View Post"If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry FordComment
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I'll keep an eye out for you but we rarely go up to the main Lake, our gang hangs on the River around Hamm Creek Park or up at the Island when the water is up.Originally posted by Treybiz View Post
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Don't blame ya a bit.. When there is enough water and the crowds aren't huge the river is awesome.Originally posted by mardyn View PostComment
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I haven't read anything about a desalination plant, must be down south, which is ironic, because we send all our water down there too. Going on year 6 of a very severe drought, it's literally rained twice in the last 6 months, with a few spatterings of mist here and there.Originally posted by Ruffdaddy View PostComment
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Yeah its in San Diego. Or as Ron burgundy would say...whales vagina.Originally posted by Big A View PostComment
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Originally posted by mustang_revival View PostIll try to snap a pic later of Lake Ray Hubbard after this rain lets up, but this was 2/14/15: (before the rain dump)
The main road with cars is 66, the closer bridge was old 66, it was completely submerged for a long time before the water levels started going down.
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Yeah, but look at the levels Texoma is down to over the last couple of years. We pulled our boat out of there 3 or 4 years ago because the "texas flats" were about to show as new islands. Pool is 617 and was hearing it could go to low pool of 595'. The boat lifts had to be dredged heavily to get boats in and out.Originally posted by Fourx4Brad View PostCliff Notes
The new closed pipeline from Lake Texoma has slowed the water level at Lake Lavon.
Water from Lake Texoma could be back in North Texas homes soon
Texoma, about 75 miles north of Dallas, was a significant source of water for the North Texas Municipal Water District for almost two decades before invasive zebra mussels found a home in the lake in 2009. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, hoping to keep the mussels out of the Trinity River system, cut off the flow from Texoma until the water district could rebuild its Texoma-to-Lavon delivery system.
Back in the 1980s, when zebra mussels were still home in Eastern Europe, the water district built a pipeline that carried Texoma water for about 25 miles before spilling it into the west prong of Sister Grove Creek and eventually into Lavon. But with the mussels settled in at Lake Texoma, the Corps of Engineers ordered the district to build a closed system. They wanted pipelines to carry the water from the lake to the district’s treatment plant with no chance of it leaking into the Trinity system. Restoring the Texoma supply comes at a critical time. Over the last six years, the Dallas-Fort Worth region has lost the equivalent of a year’s worth of rainfall, about 36 inches, due to drought. Coupled with hotter than normal summers, the water supply took a significant hit.
The North Texas Municipal Water District, which serves about 1.6 million customers north and east of Dallas, including some of the fastest-growing cities in the U.S., had to impose tough water restrictions on its customers. Adding Texoma to the water mix this summer probably won’t change that without significant rainfall during the driest months of the year. Texoma’s water also comes with complications. It’s salty, much more so than the district’s other supply sources. “It has about three or four times the salinity,” Rickman said, “so if you use Texoma as a supply source, you have to desalinate it or blend it with better water sources.”
The water district mixes the salty water with sweeter water from Lavon and the district’s other supply lakes at new blending facilities at the Wylie treatment plant. Optimally, the final ratio of sweet to salt is 4:1 to 5:1, Rickman said. The district has plans for increasing its water supply with a new lake, the planned Bois d’Arc Creek Reservoir in Fannin County. But that project still awaits permits and is not expected to be online before 2020. The district intends to build a new treatment plant in Leonard, close to the lake. That plant will also treat additional supplies from Texoma, Rickman said.
$300 Million Texoma Pipeline Operational
The NTMWD lost a quarter of its water supply five years ago when zebra mussels forced the district to stop using water from Lake Texoma. In response, the district built a new $300 million pipeline down to Wylie to provide a trickle down effect for drought relief. Texoma water used to flow into Lake Lavon, but because of the zebra mussels, the new pipeline takes water around it. Water from both lakes is blended at the treatment plant since water from Lake Texoma is too salty to drink. Thus, the pipeline won’t help elevate Lake Lavon’s astonishingly low lake level, and as it continues to dry up, the Texoma pipeline will pump 75 million gallons a day. That’s about a quarter of the water supply flowing into North Texas for the first time in five years.Comment
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