Yahoo

Lake Buchanan reaches 1020 feet for the first time since 2005

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Lake Buchanan has reached a water level of 1020 feet for the first time since March 2005, an amount that is now considered full, but has not always been the case. This week, the Lake ...
Yahoo

Lake Buchanan conservation group provides flood assistance

LAKE BUCHANAN, Texas (KXAN) — As flood gates opened at Buchanan Dam for the first time in six years, locals gathered to watch as water from Lake Buchanan rushed into Inks Lake. “There’s still a lot of ...
KXAN

Lake Buchanan stayed below full, despite area flooding

AUSTIN (KXAN) — While Lake Travis floods, its sister reservoir to the north, Lake Buchanan, remains just below full, and it will stay that way for years, according to the Lower Colorado River ...
KXAN

Overnight rain boosts Lake Buchanan level

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Though some areas of Central Texas saw heavier totals overnight, a beneficial soaking of up to 1.33 inches in the Lake Buchanan inflow region is helping boost the lake level even ...
KVUE

Lake Buchanan now 'infested' with zebra mussels, TPWD says

BURNET COUNTY, Texas — Lake Buchanan has officially been designated as "infested" with zebra mussels, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) announced Thursday. This means that there is an ...
The Texas Observer

Bald Eagle Numbers on Lake Buchanan Hit a Record Low

Charles Tischler had no trouble spotting the white-throated caracara and red-tailed hawks wheeling through the sky above Lake Buchanan on Sunday. But those aren’t the birds that Tischler, a ...
KVUE

Why the LCRA prevents Lake Buchanan from reaching 100%

As of June 7, Lake Buchanan is 94 percent full with a height of 1017.7 feet mean sea level (msl). "Lake Buchanan is considered full for water supply purposes at 1020 feet msl," said Clara Tuma, the ...
WESH

Sanitary overflow warning issued in Lake Buchanan

WEBVTT MEANS FOR YOU. MICHELLE: YOU COULD SAY THE WORST IS OVER, ALTHOUGH COUNTY OFFICIALS ARE ASKING PEOPLE AND PETS TO HOLD OFF ENJOYING LAKE BUCHANAN WHICH IS RIGHT PAST THAT TRUCK UNTIL THEY CAN ...
The Texas Observer

Bald Eagle Numbers at Lake Buchanan Are Declining. No One’s Exactly Sure Why.

Tim Mohan is intimately familiar with Lake Buchanan, the northernmost of the six Highland Lakes that squiggle through the Hill Country toward Austin. The outdoorsman can point out all the most ...
KENS

Underwater: The Texas Hill Country ghost town at the bottom of Lake Buchanan

AUSTIN, Texas — Lake Buchanan fills 22,000 acres of land in both Burnet and Llano counties. But deep underwater, there’s something that may surprise you: a true ghost town. Bluffton was built on a ...
Austin American-Statesman

Lake Buchanan infested with zebra mussels, joining dozens of other Texas waterways, officials say

Lake Buchanan is among the latest Texas waterways to be infested with zebra mussels, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The department designated the lake, which is west of Burnet ...