Lake Travis Level Slightly Up

Lake Travis is on the rise, thanks to all the recent rains. As of this morning, the lake level is at 641 feet above mean sea level (msl), about a foot above its lowest levels during the summer. Still, as LCRA points out, it's quite a ways below its historic October average of 666.6 ft msl, and mandatory watering restrictions are still in effect. “We expect these storms to give us an additional 124,000 acre-feet into lakes Travis and Buchanan by this weekend,” said Mark Jordan, LCRA River Operations manager. “But we will still need more than 1 million acre-feet to completely fill those two lakes.” [LCRA River Report]