Category: Lake & Rivers

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), which sets the rules for Canyon Lake parks and boat ramps, is seeking public comments on a revision to its regulations that would allow recreationalists to carry guns ...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials announced in a press release today they are leasing Comal Park to Water Oriented Recreation District (WORD) of Comal County. WORD did not immediately provide details about reasons for ...

Canyon Reservoir Advisory: Due to decreasing inflows upstream of Canyon Dam, the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) will reduce flows to 110 cfs at 6 p.m. Tuesday, October 1.

Caving to legal pressure by Guadalupe Valley waterfront property owners, Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) announced today it will not drain Lakes Gonzales, Meadow, Placid and McQueeney for at least 12 months in order to give ...

Canyon Lake saw variable changes in its real estate market between summer 2019 and this fall, according to LakeHomes.com’s 2019 Fall Lake Real Estate Market Report, released last week by the Alabama-based, multi-state real estate ...

Canyon Lake Realtor Sashia Diamond says the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority’s (GBRA) decision to systematically drain lakes Gonzales, Meadow, Placid and McQueeney on Sept. 16 could flood Canyon Lake’s real estate market. Consumer interest in Canyon ...

Dam Community Alliance described the Aug. 27 reopening of Canyon Lake Dam’s service road as an “epic event” on its Facebook page, but what looked like the ending of a year-long battle to restore public ...

On the heels of its wildly unpopular decision to drain lakes Gonzales, Meadow, Placid and McQueeney on Sept. 6, the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority warns those planning to attend its monthly board of directors meeting at ...

The public gets to weigh in tonight on a controversial wastewater permit that would allow developers of Honey Creek Ranch, a planned subdivision with 2,396 new homes on 592 acres, to discharge 500,000 gallons of ...

“I’m sorry, and I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy.” This was J Harmon’s reaction to this morning’s announcement by Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority that it is draining all of its Guadalupe Valley lakes beginning ...

Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) on Sept. 16 will begin systematically draining Lake Gonzales, Meadow Lake, Lake Placid and Lake McQueeney due to safety concerns it announced in a press release issued this morning. Affected property ...

Canyon Lake Water Service Company (CLWSC) is asking all customers to limit water usage after zebra mussels were discovered blocking intake pipes at its Canyon Lake Shores treatment plant. Water production is temporarily restricted and ...

Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) decreased the water release rate from Canyon Reservoir Monday night to 200 cfs. GBRA said the lake level was at 909.83 feet. This, coupled with lower inflow at Spring Branch, sparked ...

A man who drowned in Canyon Lake near the 1200 block of Comal Park Road in Canyon Lake on July 17 is being remembered on Facebook as a biology professor at Our Lady of the ...

The Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority’s (GBRA) monthly meeting was packed yesterday as Guadalupe County residents showed up at the agency’s board meeting to share their concerns about the safety of spillgates at four other hydroelectric lakes. ...

The Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) will test a newly installed warning-alert system at McQueeney Dam at noon on Sunday, July 14. The new alert can be triggered remotely from GBRA’s control room should an unscheduled ...

Water Oriented Recreation District of Comal County (WORDCC) reminds visitors and residents to “stash your trash” as part of a new campaign aimed at getting the trash off of area roadways, rivers, parks and trails: ...

Comal County Sheriff’s Office announced on its Facebook page Thursday that search crews recovered the body of Roberto Chavez Celis at 5:15 p.m. in the Guadalupe River, not far from where he went missing near ...

Potter’s Creek Park Campground closed earlier today for road, campsite pullout and parking lot resurfacing, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Canyon Lake (USACE) announced in a press release issued this morning. The public ...

Is there really a little ghost town at the bottom of Canyon Lake? Sort of, according to Dive Master Chris Armstrong, a 31-year-old, fourth-generation Canyon Lake native who works for SA Scuba Shack in San ...

Comal County commissioners will consider funding new signage for Boat Ramp #1 in Pct. 1 at their weekly meeting Thursday morning at the county courthouse. They’ve scheduled a public hearing to consider installation of regulatory ...

Recreationalists and tubers, relax. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials at Canyon Lake announced on Thursday that Canyon Dam’s stilling basin will be closed to the public from Friday, May 31st through Saturday, June 8th ...

Update: At 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 24, these were the river rates: Guadalupe River @ Spring Branch (Upper): 483 cfs Guadalupe River @ Sattler (Lower): 367 cfs Guadalupe River @ New Braunfels: 452 cfs Developing story: Thursday, May ...

Following spillgate failures at Lake Dunlap on May 14 and on Lake Wood two years ago, Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) today said it has expanded restricted zones upstream and downstream of McQueeney Dam and upstream ...

It’s been exactly one year since the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) abruptly closed the service road atop Canyon Lake Dam, but late this afternoon a work crew began pouring the slab for the ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers resumed management of water releases from Canyon Lake this morning, and will increase the release from approximately 794 cfs to 1,600 cfs over the next few hours. Property owners, ...

Riparian landowners! Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) can help you manage the pesty, invasive and very-bad-for-the-environment Arundo plant (giant cane) growing along the Blanco, Guadalupe and Medina Rivers. The state agency is offering two ...

A public hearing about the U.S. Air Force’s request to increase the discharge of treated domestic wastewater into Canyon Lake from 12,500 gallons-per-day to 21,000 gallons-per-day is scheduled for 7 p.m. today, May 6, at ...

Canyon Reservoir is currently at 909.64 ft. The Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA), under the direction of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will increase the water release rate at Canyon Reservoir to 780 cfs at ...

Larry Hull doesn’t get too excited by phone calls from Comal County residents demanding that he do something to protect groundwater from development in rural areas. His mandate, as president of Comal Trinity Groundwater Conservation ...

The annual public meeting of the Guadalupe River Basin Steering Committee is scheduled from 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 19 at the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) River Annex, 905 Nolan St. in Seguin. The ...

It’s not something you want to think about when you’re out on Canyon Lake or floating down the Guadalupe River, but bacteria levels on Texas beaches and waterways — also known as water-contaminated fecal material ...

There’s hope, dam walkers. Two months after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) barricaded Canyon Lake Dam’s popular service road without warning, a new Facebook page called “Dam Community Alliance” promises good things are ...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) released details of a closed-door June 8 meeting where options for reopening Canyon Dam’s popular service road were discussed by representatives from USACE’s Canyon Lake and Fort Worth offices, ...

Canyon Lake parks were packed and county boat ramps so busy on Sunday that Water Oriented Recreation District of Comal County (WORDCC) had to implement a one-boat-in/one-boat-out rule to deal with overcrowding. But the hottest ...

The service road along Canyon Lake Dam permanently closed on Monday following a formal complaint alleging the walkthrough is too narrow for indiviuals with disabilities. In a press release issued by its Fort Worth district, ...