Canyon Lake, Texas -Between an extensive drought and extreme water consumption - how low will it go?
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- Опубліковано 11 тра 2024
- My previous video showed how there is no Guadalupe River flow into Canyon Lake, TX. I wanted to share a ride around the lake to see a few sites. Canyon Lake dam construction began in 1958. In 1954, a flood control act was passed to begin construction on the Lake to control severe Guadalupe River flooding like they encountered in 1936 and 1938. It filled to the normal pool 909 feet above sea level by 1968- water impoundment started in 1964. Today, many of us love the lake and call it our homes. People love to tube, water ski, camp the list goes on and on. I have not done these videos to stir up any political debates or any of the other strange comments. I did it to show we do not have any river flow and how low the lake really is. Yes, we need rain in the right areas and a lot of it. Yes, we have grown way to rapidly. Who do you blame?????Bottom line is and I hate saying it the lake is for flood control and water conservation. We are definitely using to much water......#canyonlaketexas #comalcounty #guadaluperiver #heelerdadadventures
The concept is simple. You take more water out than what comes in, and the lake level is going to drop. The solution is impossible. It’s happening everywhere. I used to fish Falcon, Choke Canyon, Lake Corpus Christi, Casa Blanca, Amistad and others. I got tired of fighting water levels. Now I fish the bays. Got me a place in Rockport. I’m selling my land on Canyon Lake before it goes into the dumps.
There is this gentleman on Falcon who’s been fighting the water authorities for years to no avail. People and agriculture take priority over recreation every time. And now San Antonio is fighting over water rights to Canyon. Bummer!
We had a place in Rockport for years. Harvey had a little part in it of selling. Lots of life long friends there.
We came to Canyon Lake over 20 years ago, after the flood that created the Gorge. At that time Comal Park had a shoreline. In the interim, the level has dropped. A small sand bar off Comal Park is now a peninsula off the park. Part of the marina on the North side has collapsed into the mud. The Rec Area beach inlet no longer exists. I was stationed in SA in 1984-5. That year San Antonio was bringing up trucks from Corpus Christi filled with water to during one of the recurring droughts. I read a book written by cowboys in Texas from the great cattle drives. Texas weather was horrific back then, too. Men and cattle killed by lightening, floods, tornados on the drive.
That lake has a history of extreme fluctuations in the water levels. We hit a gravel bar in the middle of the lake some twenty odd years ago, and bent the prop on our boat. We were at least 200 yards from the nearest shore line. That was during one of those low level years. I also remember a few years ago when the water was pouring through the spillway at the dam. That was one of the highest levels ever.
I was going to shoot some footage on a spot like you're talking about, out from the dam. It got way too windy for audio.
There are several hill peaks in the lake that are always a few feet from the surface. Some have cliffs where the river bends. You can stand on the water, take a step and end up 50ft below water.
Shocked that Canyon Lake is low considering the massive amounts of rainfall over the past few months. Doesn't make sense.
Canyon lake gets its water from rivers and creeks NW of it. Fredricksburg and Kerrville have to get damn near flooded for the lake to be back to normal elevation 909 feet.
None of them have sat in the sweet spot over the Guadalupe for more than 30 minutes.
Both comments above are 100%.
Bill George warned not to sell all the water rights when he was a on the water board...no one listened...keep on building and sucking through those straws
I was shocked but not surprised to see the 3 added ones.
Wow! That is so sad. I lived in spring branch and then bulverde for years. We spent many weekends on the boat at canyon lake. That doesn’t even look like the lake. Heartbreaking.
Sure is heartbreaking. I'll have to video some more that North wind started blowing hard.
Damn , that's " Fun All Wrong"😢.
SAWS are draining the aquifer around Leesville also
Thank you so much for this. It is really amazing everything you can see in the lake now. I love this lake so much and hope it gets back to where it was at soon! I have been thinking about going out there in the next week or two. I have not been in the lake since May 2023 and it was not even close to that low. Last summer was brutal on Texas.
The only ramp is in the park down from the Marina in Hancock. $5 county resident $20 non-resident. Check the internet weird hours. I'm glad you enjoyed it. You're going to be shocked...... Thanks for watching and commenting.
Cool video 😎 hello from West Texas
Hello
Buy land in east Texas. You will never have an issue with no rainfall! I live on Lake Livingston. Our lake is full to the brim!
I have lived here at the lake for 27 years but have come since the lake opened. Never been this low.. They have kept pumping what little water is still in the lake out to users all over the region.. sad!
It's definitely a sad situation.
What is it being pumped out for? Irrigation??
@@fishaman7834 water supply, not irrigation.
@@heelerdadadventures ohh ok.. I haven’t been in about 7 years.. last time I was there we rented a cabin at the park for military personnel
Rumor had it some of the water sold from Canyon Lake makes it all the way to Louisiana. Not sure. But rumor is.
Ahh, the cliffs at North Park! Great memories there until I almost got died one jump
Definitely some awesome- stupid memories. My neighbor in the video couldn't believe we came down from the top 😅😅😅😅.
I love drinking water. I'm drinking some right now!
What’s even worse is Medina Lake
Hate to say it, we all need a Tropical Storm. People just done realize. Travis, Buchanan,. Medina, Canyon Lake and everything in that circle we have not had any good rain in a few years..
Awe we used to dive off a place like that..❤
So what me an all my Hispanic friends are going up in Droves all this summer to swim in Canyon Lake ....Can't Stop 🛑 won't Stop 🛑 ❕❕
Not sure what your talking about, but the gates were closed yesterday at the dam for the river and they definitely made a lot of changes at the overlook park for parking. Not even sure what parks are open. Beach areas are Definitely closed in Hancock. Come on and have fun. Do some research so your not wasting time and gas trying to figure where to go.
There is a third SAWS draw point after the outfitters at the I-35 bridge - SAWS bought the water rights from the outfitters. So the water goes through the river for the outfitters, to 35, then SAWS pulls it out and it goes to the pumping station at oconner and nacogdoches,
One more thing, Cranes mill actually moved their whole park in the late 70s/early 80s.... if you go to the place where the river comems in, on the south bend - jUST where the lake starts, there are some old bathrooms and buildings where the old cranes mill boat ramp/park facility was. From my understanding, it was determined to be too close to the river entrance, and susceptable to flooding and drought, so they moved it downstream where it is now - they also added the (camping) picnic stuff on the penennsula at that time. . The old bathrooms and stuff were there at the river bend into the early 2000's but i don't know if they are still there.
I haven't been inside the park in forever, just from the water. There is a pretty good amount of Rv sights right at the start of the lake. By the fishing dock. That what you're talking about? I have seen those pipes. I'll be in New Braunfels for the weekend, I'll have to take my nephew and go check that out a little closer.
@@heelerdadadventures Well then, thats new!!! ish - Yes, the old abandoned part was right there by the RV park. (looking at the googles) If you look in the middle of the little round parking lot with the floating pier, you can see the rectangular foundation for the old restrooms. We would stop there when we were jet skiing for a break, it was totally abandoned back then (2002-05/?? ish). We would put in by Nancy Jo's by our house (nancy jo's is now part of lakeview resort - ramp 7 by our house on glenn - Mom sold it in 2007) and go up the river - we would stash fuel in places and end up at the rebecca creek bridge... kick back, refuel, and come back.... OR if it was windy, we would go out in the big part of the lake between Comal and North Park - by the big north island and wave ride. Also skiied in many of the coves, my favorite was by the submerged island on the south side by the cliffs. or over by the military park, which is probably completely out of the water now.... know that lake like the back of my hand. All the stuff you're finding in the shallows is why I would rather swim in 90 feet of water than 20 feet of water.
If I can catch a day next week the wind lays. I am going to grab the neighbor and go out for another run. I got to the corner of Cranesmill park, basically across from what now is Mystic Shores. I want to see how the Hydrilla is doing at the mouth of the river and run up river towards us. I bought that jet outboard boat specifically for running the river. I'll definitely film that.
I'm going to ask a REALLY dumb question. I have heard from some sources (fishermen with depth finders) that some REALLY tall trees are starting to come up in the middle of the lake. The rumor is trees on the order of 80 foot, in the middle, past the second cranes mill island (normally submerged). I don't believe it. I was told they were about 20 feet under a month or two ago. They would have to be big pines or something to be that tall!!!!
Have you heard any of these rumors? I put it in the 15 foot canyon lake catfish story category
@livingdeadbtu They are there. Watch the video I did on the lake. I have a map in that video. I had to study it. Those Cypress are definitely showing up where you were told. I'll get out there this week and shoot some more footage.
Joe Hayes! Never heard that story.
He said it wasn't his but he might know who it belongs to. I am going to dive down to it with my mask and figure out what kind of boat it is. My next restoration. 😅😅😅
some BIG AZZ rocks up there
Some really cool ones I have never seen.
Really messed up two lower units up there
Which ramps are still open?
Only one, the park down from the Marina in Hancock. Has strange hours, $5 Comal County registered vehicle. $20 non-resident. You'll have to look it up if you're planning on using it. Marina ramp was open, but they closed it, Marina is in the process of getting pulled out farther and reanchored.
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Oh wow! Well thanks , saved me a trip!
Kind of reminds me of areas around Possum Kingdom Lake. Possum Lake is known for amoebas. Texas has the most 'brain-eating' amoeba infections in the U.S. Has this lake ever had amoebas?
Not that I know of.
Flood of 98 took most of the place out,
Very sad to see, we have a place on the north side, haven’t had the boat out in 2 years…
I was shocked.... First time on the lake in 2 years, also. Pretty nice, I had the lake to myself. The river is what I truly miss being on. The reason we went with the boat in the video. Got rid of the big boat and went with a river runner.
wow your really hard on the lake, remember pee on the tree today drink it in San Antonio
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Keep building more apartments and more subdivisions for more water hungry residents to come in and deplete it. One of the factors when you have uncontrolled development and rapid overpopulation. Add drought to the equation and you have what you have.
It just flooded down that way and there is no water. Better go up stream and see who has it damned up because I guarantee someone does. They done the same thing to the red river.
They are damning it up further northwest to study something
Not enough rain in the right places
This is the lake just outside of Three Rivers going to Tilden that your filming at correct ?? If so haven’t been there in several years !!
No, this is Canyon Lake and Gudalupe River. Frio runs through Tilden.
@@heelerdadadventures ok my bad I thought it was like 5 miles out of three river from the name !!