We got a letter on Cedar Creek with lakeside restrictions aswell. Problem you have is if your lakeside yard turns to dirt and we get rain you fill the lake with silt, plus if you over water lakeside the water table goes back in the lake.

Yes and its expected the drought will intensify across Texas and some gulf states -

I pray its going to end , but fear we are in for a BAD time over the next two years.

Just and Idea.

I never understood why we need more lakes?

A few years ago, I found my favorite family Sandbass spot (Hickory Creek in Oklahoma on the Red River West of Texoma) no longer produced because the Red River had silted in the mouth of the creek, and is slowly working to silt in Lake Texoma (better book a Striper Fishing trip NOW, before the lake is completely silted over in few hundred or thousand years) and the fish no longer run up Hickory Creek.



Right now, When you go out to the lake, what do you see, lots of dirt. When our farm pond and tanks (for cattle) dried up, we cleaned them up and made them DEEPER. Every lake is going to silt in eventually, and since almost all lakes in Texas are Man made, then why not use a Manual option of removing the silt and making them deeper. Use a drag line, very common in Florida where we had our ranch. A single bucket from a drag line holds enough contents to fill a swimming pool. No need for another Dam, or build another lake, just maintain the lakes we currently have. When the rains come, and they will, we will have more room to hold what nature provides us natually.

There are plenty of construction project and other areas where they can safely dispose of the dirt. Even creating islands will still result in more depth and increase water retention.

What a good Tax payer funded project, to hire many 'out of work Texans'.