I think they have length restrictions on the private docks. Better hope it's next to a creek channel if you buy and build. Might not be usable half the year.

Dont get caught.

I talked to a civil engineer about it and if it lost water level to just the pumping from month to month it would be barely noticeable. The problem Cooper has is about a third of it is two to three feet deep when it is at pool stage. There is another big section of it that is about five to six feet deep at pool stage. As summer comes on the two to three foot section really heats up and starts to evaporate and as that process begins the five to six foot section begins to become shallow enough to come into the process of over heating. During the drought of 2006 we lost over 2/3's of the lake because of that.
A lot of that could be stopped if they'd let it fill to the top of the spillway, that would allow those shallow flats to become deep enough to not be so susceptible to the heat but they say the dam is not designed to hold that pressure. This past spring when all the rains finally ended they left Cooper a foot high instead of draining it back to pool stage, it definitely made a difference. The discussion I had with the civil engineer we were actually talking about Fork and it gets pumped at the same rate as Cooper. He said Fork looses about a 1/10 of an inch to DFW pumping per month.

They pump a lot of water year round into Lewisville from Cooper from what I understand. That definitely can't help!

We have too many people in Texas. That's the problem. We built lakes when we had 10-12 million people. Now we have 30 million. The answer isn't one medium-sized lake that won't fill.

DFW is plagued by regular, cyclical drought.....it'll only get worse as more and more concrete gets paved over the north central Texas soil.

If they would enforce watering restrictions, quit watering concrete and plant the right plants - well, that would go a long way....