Lake Travis Levels and Homes on Stilts

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 at 10:36 pm

By Ryan Brown

Driving or boating around Lake Travis you’ll see many interesting solutions to the problem of varying lake levels. Here’s one I saw a few years back while looking at lakehouses:

Lake Travis Stilt House
The Highland Lakes result from multiple dams on the Colorado River. When more water flows downstream (due to heavy rains usually) lake levels rise. Lake Travis is designed to store floodwaters to prevent flooding downstream. As flood rains are fairly infrequent, the level of Lake Travis can flucuate dramatically over time. Check out the below chart of the Minimum and Maximum Lake Levels of Lake Travis (month by month) since 1942:

Lake Travis Historical Levels

Source: http://www.lcra.org/water/river_info.html

What made me think of all this? Check out this new listing:
1203 Fawn Park, Lago Vista

This lake talk reminds me of the day I saw a 6 foot alligator in Lake Travis… but I’ll save that story for another time.

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