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Friday Weather Update
Sunny And Hot Conditions Continue 5/17/13
Sunny skies and hot temperatures are expected through much of the weekend. Record heat is possible today.
Sunny skies and hot temperatures are expected through much of the weekend. Record heat is possible today.
Texas Water Supplier Set to Cut Off Rice Farmers 3/1/13
Associated Press
3/1/13
AUSTIN, Texas - It appears the ongoing drought in Texas will keep most
rice farmers in three counties from getting irrigation water to flood their
fields for an unprecedented second consecutive year.
Lower Colorado River Authority officials earlier this year said that if at
11:59 p.m. Friday the combined storage in lakes Buchanan and Travis was below
850,000 acre-feet, then most downstream rice producers - in Matagorda, Colorado
and Wharton counties - won't get water for the upcoming growing season.
The combined storage of the two lakes Thursday was less than 824,000
acre-feet. There is no rain in Austin's forecast for Friday.
When the board decided to cut off water for the 2012 season, it was the
first time in state history that rice farmers were denied irrigation water from
the lakes.