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Lakeway MUD: Balancing demands on Texas’ Colorado River
Balancing the Colorado River’s human and agricultural water demands with environmental needs is as important to the West ...
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Texas-wide water cleanup initiative tackles Lake Austin, Colorado River
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Several environmental groups are teaming up this weekend to clean trash out of Lake Austin and the Colorado River, as part of a statewide initiative to keep Texas waterways clean ...
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A look back at the efforts to contain the Colorado River as it flowed through Austin
AUSTIN, Texas — Runaway floods are very much a part of Austin’s history, in battles against the often-wild Colorado River. The first attempt at controlling the river came in 1893. Workers ...
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Downstream of Austin, Texas rice farmers face another year without Colorado River water
Continuing drought means Texas rice farmers will not receive water from the Lower Colorado River Authority in 2023. Talking on the phone from his tractor in Colorado County, Texas, Craig Gutman ...
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Could Monday’s landmark deal to conserve the Colorado River be a blueprint for future water deals in Texas?
The Biden administration on Tuesday, April 11, 2023 released an environmental analysis of competing plans for how Western states and tribes reliant on the dwindling Colorado River should cut their ...
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Officials celebrate completion of SH 71 Colorado River bridge project
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Officials in Central Texas on Thursday celebrated the ... the completion of the State Highway 71 at the Colorado River bridge project. During the project, nine bridges were ...
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Texas purchases 2,020 acres of land in Central Texas, laying groundwork for new state park
Colorado Bend State Park is located across the Colorado River from the 2,020-acre property the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department recently purchased to create a new state park.(Colorado Bend ...