Hearing tomorrow at 9am at Guadalupe County Justice Center on a restraining order. Judge Ables out of Kerrville is the judge, the 3 Guadalupe District judges recused themselves.
The former chair of GBRA (still on the board), and from all reports a good guy, Rusty Brockman announced he was running for mayor last Thursday. Talk about kicking a hornets nest, the lake residents are now all upset with him though very few can actually vote for or against him since the majority of Dunlap adjacent property is out of the city limits and none of the other lakes come close to NB.
Texas Tribune posted an article about the lakes:
These dams needed replacing 15 years ago. Now Texas will drain four lakes instead — causing other problems.
I'm still not sure what the fix is. The dams were built at a time when there was hardly even any farming around the lakes. Then communities built by the lakes assuming (you know what you get when you do that) that they would always be there. GBRA probably should have better worked with the elected officials to let them know the conditions of the dams and see what the state could do and for all we know, they did, that's just never been discussed and in the Sunset review last session, they were kinda quiet on it.
I'm not sure I'm all that exicted about the other 28 million Texas residents paying for what are in practice private lakes - Dunlap has the I35 ramp that's free. McQueeney has 2 ramps - 1 requires a membership to the Ski Club, the other may or may not be open depending and has a charge. And if the residents want to pay for it (none seem to be really jumping for that outside of Dunlap residents), then the new WCIDs should be required to develop future maintenance funding plans, otherwise it's all for naught.
I personally don't think turning the lower Guadalupe back into a more natural river is a bad thing.