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TEXAS / BURNET COUNTY

Spicewood Beach

Ran dryRestored July 2014
No photograph available
Population (2021)
1,353
Water cut
January 30, 2012
Cause
groundwater
Where
30.52°N, 98.14°W

What happened, and when

Every dated water event the register holds for Spicewood Beach, newest first, each with the sources that document it.

  1. Restored

    Restored

    The new Lake Travis surface-water intake and treatment plant went online in July 2014, ending the hauling; Corix bought the system from the authority that month.

  2. Ran dryon the card

    Ran dry: what happened

    Spicewood Beach, a lakeside subdivision on Lake Travis whose roughly 500-meter system was then owned by the Lower Colorado River Authority, drew on wells that fell abruptly in the 2011 to 2012 drought. On January 24, 2012 the authority moved the system to Stage 4 emergency restrictions, banning all outdoor watering and warning the well might remain functional for only a few more days, and on January 30 it began trucking water into the storage tank, making Spicewood Beach the first Texas community to run dry in that drought. Trucked water continued for two and a half years while a lake-water intake and treatment plant was built.