Possible solution to low lake levels??

I was out fishing today and was thinking maybe a solution to the next drought would be if the TPWD would place inflatable rubber trees in the lakes. When the water levels drop just inflate the rubber trees and the volume of air would displace the water and raise the water lever. The added benefit would it would give the fish a place to hide. and hang out. Just brainstorming.

Bernie will prolly wanna do that for us.

Surprising I've seen someone pose this same question before. Surprisingly, I don't think it ended well

Thousands of air mattresses secured to the bottom would help also.

when the lake gets low.... Wade fish.

Whose gonna swim down there and blow them up?

Simple, just hook each bag to a hose and manifold system. Inflate as the levels drop to maintain a steady lake level.

What's up, Biscuits? How you been?

Living the dream dude. Just bought a house on three acres in Castroville. My lake is full of water and the fishing is great. How is life treating you guys?

I thought you were talking about this

who needs a boat ramp

We should truck in icebergs and let them melt.

Not again.

Instead of raising the water level maybe we could lower the surrounding land... dig some vent holes in the shores and let enough air out of the surrounding hills to lower the land to water level...

Congrats! Life is good.

Someone on here proposed large air bladders being sunk into lakes struggling with water levels about a year ago. It didn't go well.

Not a bad idea if the over burden was put into the lake it would raise the level. I think the cost of fuel and labor may make that idea unpractical.

I remember something like that being brought up. My idea though would potentially being jobs to area lakes because you could hire dudes to tie balloon type devices into tree formations.

The bladders seems to still be working at The Vine.

Aside from West Texas, which lakes are low still?

Almost every lake below Waco, I don't know about Waco, I just used it as a reference to show that south Texas is dry.

Medina is 63% full. Need more rain.

Gezzz.

The Astrodome isn't being used any more. Let's just sink it into a low lake.

I'm speechless, well almost.

I recall taking time to do the math when the Athens Fish & Game Lake's dam busted, this lake sitting on top of Lake Athens.

I won't bother looking it up but it was essentially a 130 acre lake, if every drop drained out of it (it wouldn't) ending up in a 1799 acre lake. If I recall correctly, I made a few assumptions about the steepness of the banks surrounding the larger lake receiving the water (vertical capacity so that the lake didn't spread out its surface area), then a total deposit of the smaller lake into the larger lake . . . and, it would have only raised the water level in Lake Athens by 17".

I'm sure the engineers knew/know this; they have calculators, too.

The reason Lake Athens was closed for several days or weeks last May was the possibility of a surge of water up in its northwest corner down into the lake, sort of a tsunami effect. Even that was improbable but might have caused issues at the boat ramp.

Anyway, good luck raising water levels by submerging things into large lakes. We'd be talking one-thousandths of an inch, imperceptible increases.

The only engineering solution I can think of would be to sink all of the over-inflated egos of our Democrat and Republican Presidential candidates into a lake as a test, then they'd top off nicely, overflow the banks! Ha!

Brad

Brad