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 Re: New GBRA Guadalupe Dams website.
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09/11/19 10:54 PM
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Injunction was granted. Another hearing on Sept. 16
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Re: New GBRA Guadalupe Dams website.
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09/12/19 12:18 AM
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Injunction was granted. Another hearing on Sept. 16 I wonder if itโs the same judge or a different judge....
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Re: New GBRA Guadalupe Dams website.
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09/12/19 01:00 AM
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The waiting game continues! 
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Re: New GBRA Guadalupe Dams website.
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09/12/19 11:46 AM
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I have only fished McQueeny and Placid one time many years ago so I don't really have a dog in this fight. That said my opinion is if any public funds are going to be used to make repairs then the lakes should have full public access.
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Re: New GBRA Guadalupe Dams website.
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09/12/19 12:44 PM
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The waiting game continues! The judge heard the HOA's argument yesterday and will hear GBRA on Monday. It appears the visiting judge is extending his payday.
Transgenders: God made them, the devil changed their minds.
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Re: New GBRA Guadalupe Dams website.
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09/12/19 01:12 PM
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A former GBRA employee testified that there was an internal GBRA meeting in 2013 discussing two strategies. The first was to invest in the electrical generators and fix the dams while still making money. The second was to move all water rights, on paper, to Canyon Lake thus raising water rates and justifying not fixing the dams. If hydroelectric doesn't make money, we don't have to fix the dams and all the revenue will be recorded coming from Canyon Lake. The team at GBRA voted and the then second in command on the management team was the only member to advocate fixing the dams. He was fired shortly there after.
For the last six years, GBRA allowed everyone to purchase homes, that were appreciating in value, on all the lakes without disclosing the strategy or issues the dams faced. At the same time, GBRA was taking permit dollars for docks and bulkheads on lakes that then knew were going to fail.
This came to me from two people who attended the hearing. We will see what or if anything changes.
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Re: New GBRA Guadalupe Dams website.
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09/12/19 01:25 PM
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So it seems that the blame game is what these hearings are all about, and not addressing the safety issue that isn't going away?
Just one more cast!
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Re: New GBRA Guadalupe Dams website.
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09/12/19 01:37 PM
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A former GBRA employee testified that there was an internal GBRA meeting in 2013 discussing two strategies. The first was to invest in the electrical generators and fix the dams while still making money. The second was to move all water rights, on paper, to Canyon Lake thus raising water rates and justifying not fixing the dams. If hydroelectric doesn't make money, we don't have to fix the dams and all the revenue will be recorded coming from Canyon Lake. The team at GBRA voted and the then second in command on the management team was the only member to advocate fixing the dams. He was fired shortly there after.
For the last six years, GBRA allowed everyone to purchase homes, that were appreciating in value, on all the lakes without disclosing the strategy or issues the dams faced. At the same time, GBRA was taking permit dollars for docks and bulkheads on lakes that then knew were going to fail.
This came to me from two people who attended the hearing. We will see what or if anything changes. I just hope that the next legislature dissolves GBRA and moves the assets to a real river authority. But we will have to wait and see just how deep the good old boy club is in the capitol building.
Transgenders: God made them, the devil changed their minds.
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Re: New GBRA Guadalupe Dams website.
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09/12/19 01:38 PM
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A former GBRA employee testified that there was an internal GBRA meeting in 2013 discussing two strategies. The first was to invest in the electrical generators and fix the dams while still making money. The second was to move all water rights, on paper, to Canyon Lake thus raising water rates and justifying not fixing the dams. If hydroelectric doesn't make money, we don't have to fix the dams and all the revenue will be recorded coming from Canyon Lake. The team at GBRA voted and the then second in command on the management team was the only member to advocate fixing the dams. He was fired shortly there after.
For the last six years, GBRA allowed everyone to purchase homes, that were appreciating in value, on all the lakes without disclosing the strategy or issues the dams faced. At the same time, GBRA was taking permit dollars for docks and bulkheads on lakes that then knew were going to fail.
This came to me from two people who attended the hearing. We will see what or if anything changes. Sounds like corruption of some sort had taken place. The GBRA is a total disgrace and has already been stated they should be investigated by the Texas Attorneys Generals Office or may be even by the Texas Rangers. A complete audit of the business and financial records of the GBRA needs to be made. Seems like "BAD MANAGEMENT" played a huge factor in the dams functions and up keep. For now the problem is a public safety issue. It will take the State of Texas and the local governments, city and county to produce the funds to fix the damaged dams. If public funds are used to fix the dams then all of the river lakes need to have complete public accesses. As for the GBRA they need to be investigated and done away with and another State entity needs to be formed to over see the everyday rivers operations. Just my two cents! 
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Re: New GBRA Guadalupe Dams website.
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09/12/19 01:39 PM
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So it seems that the blame game is what these hearings are all about, and not addressing the safety issue that isn't going away? No doubt the safety issue is real, but at least these hearings are exposing the mismanagement of the Guadalupe River by GBRA.
Transgenders: God made them, the devil changed their minds.
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Re: New GBRA Guadalupe Dams website.
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09/12/19 02:10 PM
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Public Safety right now is fore front! The long term solution will be that the State of Texas steps in along with a special sales tax in the affected counties that the GBRA had control off, would have to make up the funds to pay for the dam repairs. The GBRA needs to be done away with and a new river management team needs to be put back in place with public oversight!
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Re: New GBRA Guadalupe Dams website.
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09/12/19 02:15 PM
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So it seems that the blame game is what these hearings are all about, and not addressing the safety issue that isn't going away? Seems so sir, all these guys can think about us their loss of a lake. Hell its not like they are taking the river and moving it to a new location. They are lowering the water to get the pressure off the dams, seems logical to people like you & I.
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Re: New GBRA Guadalupe Dams website.
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09/12/19 03:51 PM
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They are basically saying new dams or nothing, and I believe the type of new dams were proposed by the GBRA. From what I've read, these are much more expensive and advanced than what is needed to fulfill the necessity of what these dams are to provide. Since they are not purposed for flood control, and the production of hydroelectric power has been irrelevant for the last however many years, you should be able to go back in with a similar and less expensive approach. What the lakeside owners on all lakes are attempting to do is hold off on draining the lakes until a taxing entity can be established. When they do this, they can apply for a bond money to pay for their own dams or pay for their own repairs. This would of course mean that the GBRA would be removed from oversite.
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