Critics question LCRA watershed rules

  • A map of Llano, Burnet and Travis counties shows, in blue, the area subject to the Lower Colorado River Authority’s Highland Lakes Watershed Ordinance. Approximately 52 percent of Burnet County falls within the Upper Highland Lakes watershed. Contributed/LCRA
    A map of Llano, Burnet and Travis counties shows, in blue, the area subject to the Lower Colorado River Authority’s Highland Lakes Watershed Ordinance. Approximately 52 percent of Burnet County falls within the Upper Highland Lakes watershed. Contributed/LCRA
Burnet County Judge James Oakley said Thursday he hopes the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) will be more forthcoming in the future about how it implements the Highland Lakes Watershed Ordinance, which governs development within the Highland Lakes watershed. “We want water quality, but where’s the science behind (the ordinance) and why isn’t it fairly applied in all of the counties?” Oakley…

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