Does anyone know the "rules" for lake shore access? With the my lake (RC) down so much we now have several feet of additional shoreline on my waterfront property. People (not my neighbors)are constantly walking this new "beach" from other areas (marina and swim beach). I assume they have the right to do this? The problem is they leave a lot of trash on my place and I came up missing a couple of items from my yard this past week.
I know you can go anywhere while in a boat and on the water and your not suppose to get out of your boat onto private property but this is a little different.
I would appreciate any comments.

Where does your property line end? If it extends past the shore line at normal pool level, it's open to anyone to boat on, but I would think that it would be your private property at low lake levels, when the land is dry. But only if your property line extends that far.

I have heard that it is three feet from the water's edge on "navigable"(sp) waterway. The question here sometimes is the word that I don't know how to spell. This rule is for the purposes of the problem of water travel. sometimes your boat/raft/etc is a now-you-see-it-now-you-don't sort of thing. I do not believe the rule was intended for "use" but rather for travel in the event of neccessity. The main problem is that this is not a Socialist Contry, thank God, and the land itslef is privately owned. I really don't think people should be just stolling along and certainly littering and thievery in themselves are crimes.

It will all boil down to Local Law Enforcement and who has more pull, you or the marina?

Alan

Hey Rick,

Check the survey for your property. I live on Buchanan and own down to 1020', which is conservation pool level. LCRA control from 1020 down, which means that it is public. I have had people camped in front of my house on the beach, in fact I have come home from out of town to find people camped on the beach with water and electricity strung from my house down to their campsite. Luckly LCRA closed the park near my property. They no longer have access to get from the road to the shore.

Good luck

Conservation pool or normal level for Richland Chambers is 314ft. above sea level. If the lake is 3 feet low and exposes more shoreline or beach then they do have the right to be there. But leaving trash behind is just unacceptable. My friend is having the same problem around his boathouse on Grapevine. Haven't these people heard the saying, "Leave No Trace"? Some friends and I camped on the islands at Texoma once and were appalled at all the trash people had left behind. Needless to say we left that area much cleaner than it was before we arrived. If there is one thing I hate most it is a litterbug.

Wow. It would never, ever cross my mind to camp or set up to fish off the bank in front of someone's house, or alongside their boat dock...whether the water was low or not.

Do these people know the extent of the property owner's property line? Heck, do they even know the current level and the conservation pool level of the lake?

We came home a time or two and found that people had opened our gate, come into our yard, and were fishing from the bank on our property when we lived on Caddo.

A large and extremely aggressive German Shepherd put an end to that problem...