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Re: The draining of Lake Conroe
[Re: Matt Newsom]
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05/09/18 01:32 AM
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Re: The draining of Lake Conroe
[Re: pchapin]
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05/09/18 07:45 AM
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TxDispatcher
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The lake was built for flood control and water supply not for home owners and fishermen and they will do what they want to do to keep people safe. Build a home on lake Amistad, oh that's right not allowed thank god. Not sure who told you Conroe was built for flood control but they were making it up. It was built for a water supply for Houston. Nothing else. If you look at how much water passed through Lake Conroe during Harvey, you would see that even if the lake had been empty, the flooding would have been the same. If the lake had never been built, it would have been much worse. Yes sir...130,000 cfs of water headed downstream versus 79,000 cfs headed downstream. Seems like a no brainer to me what gets me is the lawsuit reading "intentional flooding occurring in October '94, May 2000, June '01, May '04, March '16, April '16, and August '17"...as if anyone wants to intentionally flood someone's home how about at some point realize that you've built/bought a house in a flood zone, and get the heck out of there. Seems like common sense to me. I helped a friend move after the flood of '94...it didn't take but one time for him to realize "I bought a house in the wrong area, I'm moving to higher ground"
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Re: The draining of Lake Conroe
[Re: Matt Newsom]
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05/09/18 01:21 PM
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Txduckhunter
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Not sure Conroe is on anyone's bucket list. I've never been there and doubt I'll ever go. Its a tough lake to fish for sure. Its definitely not the place to go to if you are looking for numbers. But 2 8+ have been caught out of my boat in the past 6 months. Hard to find that a lot of places. Maybe you need to get out more. 2 8's in 6 months does not make it a bucket list lake. That can and does happen on just about,any lake in Texas.
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Re: The draining of Lake Conroe
[Re: Matt Newsom]
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05/09/18 01:37 PM
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Bulletman99
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I'm no hydrologist by any stretch of the imagination BUT I cannot see how lowering a lake the size of Conroe by just 2 feet will have little effect if any if another Hurricane such as last year comes along. Think of how much water we're talking about here, the flooding was Conroe X 250 and deeper than 2 feet in most areas. Another thing to think about. Last years rain totals were how much?? If those same totals go a little further north where would 5 feet of rain go? There has to be another solution!!
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Re: The draining of Lake Conroe
[Re: Txduckhunter]
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05/09/18 01:45 PM
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Douglas J
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Not sure Conroe is on anyone's bucket list. I've never been there and doubt I'll ever go. Its a tough lake to fish for sure. Its definitely not the place to go to if you are looking for numbers. But 2 8+ have been caught out of my boat in the past 6 months. Hard to find that a lot of places. Maybe you need to get out more. 2 8's in 6 months does not make it a bucket list lake. That can and does happen on just about,any lake in Texas.
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Re: The draining of Lake Conroe
[Re: Matt Newsom]
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05/09/18 04:54 PM
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Fast Lane
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2 ft low ...then fish off shore structure.
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Re: The draining of Lake Conroe
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05/10/18 01:53 AM
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Fishspanker
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I would think a retainage reservoir along the San Jacinto between FM 2854 and I-45 would have to help.
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Re: The draining of Lake Conroe
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05/12/18 12:54 AM
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machinist
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Ok I don't understand this 4 foot of water under the docks rule. How do they regulate how deep the water is where you build you dock? If its 10 foot deep where you build your dock does someone come in and put in dirt until you only have 4 foot of water? I mean my dock here at Lake Graham has 14 foot of water under it, my neighbor only has 8 foot under his. I mean I don't think I have ever seen a lake where the shoreline is all the same depth.
Last edited by machinist; 05/12/18 12:55 AM.
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