Domestic Water Use

At its March 26 meeting, the LCRA Board of Directors will consider proposed changes to its drought contingency plans for firm water customers. LCRA accepted public comments on proposed updates through March 13.

The proposed changes include adding a drought response stage and additional mandatory drought response measures.

At its Feb. 21 meeting, the LCRA Board approved an amendment to LCRA’s current DCPs limiting outdoor watering to no more than once a week anytime the combined storage of lakes Buchanan and Travis is below 900,000 acre-feet. For the current combined storage, see the River Operations Report. Firm customers must adopt the schedule by May 1. Read the news release. The new watering restriction also is included in the proposed DCPs.

LCRA Board meeting agendas are posted here at least 72 hours before the meeting.

Lakeside residential property owners must have a domestic use water contract with LCRA to pump water from one of the Highland Lakes or Lady Bird Lake. The contracts are for up to 10 years and up to 10 acre-feet of water per year. These are firm water contracts.

If you would prefer a paper contract application, are moving in or out, need a new sticker to identify the water intake for your property, or have a domestic use contract and currently cannot access water from lakes Buchanan or Travis, please email [email protected].

Rates

The annual rate for water for domestic use is $155 per acre-foot of water. An acre-foot is 325,851 gallons. The minimum domestic use contract is for three-quarters of an acre-foot, at a cost of $116.25 per year.

Watering schedule

Outdoor watering domestic use customers is currently limited to no more than once per week.

Domestic use customers may water on the following days:

  • Wednesdays and Saturdays for addresses ending in odd numbers.
  • Thursdays and Sundays for addresses ending in even numbers.

Hours: Midnight to 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. to midnight.
November through February: No watering.

Violators will be subject to surcharges.

Outdoor watering schedule:

  • Saturday for addresses ending in odd numbers.
  • Sunday for addresses ending in even numbers.

Hours: Midnight to 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. to midnight.
November through February: No watering.

Violators will be subject to surcharges.

The schedule does not apply to watering with drip irrigation or soaker hoses that have working on and off timers, watering with a hand-held hose that has a shut-off nozzle or watering with a faucet-filled bucket that holds no more than five gallons.