LCRA considers charging downstream customers higher rate

  • Following a water regimen which involves flooding, rice farmers on the Gulf Coat of Texas will harvest a crop using heavy equipment such as the one pictured here in 2013. Contributed/Texas Farm Bureau
    Following a water regimen which involves flooding, rice farmers on the Gulf Coat of Texas will harvest a crop using heavy equipment such as the one pictured here in 2013. Contributed/Texas Farm Bureau
A local watchdog group and the Lower Colorado River Authority may be seeing eye-to-eye in the entity’s latest proposal to consider hiking the price of water paid by agriculture customers downstream but by how much remains in contention. During its upcoming Jan. 19 meeting, LCRA Board of Directors will consider updates to the agricultural Drought Contingency Plan for “interruptible” agricultural…

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