{"id":4969,"date":"2012-01-24T12:55:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T18:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=4969"},"modified":"2012-01-24T13:02:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T19:02:05","slug":"lcra-releases-draft-of-water-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/01\/24\/lcra-releases-draft-of-water-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"LCRA Releases Draft of Water Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1895\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"A stock pond south of Dallas, TX, dries up due to drought.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/51636665.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1895\" title=\"A stock pond south of Dallas, TX, dries up due to\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/51636665-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/51636665-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/51636665-220x143.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/51636665.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Paul Buck\/AFP<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stock pond south of Dallas, TX, dries up due to drought.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Some big changes could be in play for water in Central Texas. The <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/topic\/lcra\/\">Lower Colorado River Authority<\/a>\u00a0(LCRA), which manages water and some energy projects in the region, released a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcra.org\/library\/media\/public\/docs\/water\/wmp\/WMPandDroughtContingencyPlans_01-23-12Draft.pdf\">draft of its water plan<\/a> today for the decades to come. As Texas <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/topic\/drought\/\">continues to reel from a record drought<\/a> while adding more people, some changes to water management are due.<\/p>\n<p>What does the plan entail? Some bad news for rice farmers, Farzad Mashhood of the <em>Austin American-Statesman<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/blogs\/content\/shared-gen\/blogs\/austin\/green\/entries\/2012\/01\/24\/lcra_publishes_proposed_water.html\">takes a closer look<\/a>:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The plan would allow more flexible management of the river basin by the LCRA, such as setting separate triggers for allocating water to downstream rice farmers\u2019 first and seconds crops. The current plan allocates water for rice farmers based on a Jan. 1 trigger point. (Emergency actions by the LCRA allowed them to break from the current plan and set different cutoffs for rice farmers, many of whom will likely be without LCRA water this year.)<\/p>\n<p>The plan contains a two-phased curtailment procedure for all areas of the basin \u2014 farm irrigation, municipal use and environmental flows \u2014 that factors in expected changes in demand. The plan said the first phase is designed for \u201cinterim demands,\u201d between 2010 to 2020, and the second is designed for 2020 demands.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/blogs\/content\/shared-gen\/blogs\/austin\/green\/entries\/2012\/01\/24\/lcra_publishes_proposed_water.html\">read more at the<em> Statesman<\/em><\/a>. And here is the document in full:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-documentcloud\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/286531-wmpanddroughtcontingencyplans-01-23-12draft.html\">https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/286531-wmpanddroughtcontingencyplans-01-23-12draft.html<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some big changes could be in play for water in Central Texas. The Lower Colorado River Authority\u00a0(LCRA), which manages water and some energy projects in the region, released a draft of its water plan today for the decades to come. As Texas continues to reel from a record drought while adding more people, some changes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":1895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[61,31,85],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4974,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions\/4974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}