{"id":408126,"date":"2026-08-16T13:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T13:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408126\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T13:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T13:06:13","slug":"central-texas-lakes-hover-near-full-capacity-in-august-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408126\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Texas lakes hover near full capacity in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an update on where all the Austin-area lake levels stand as of Friday, August 14:<\/p>\n<p>Lake Travis&#8217;s current capacity is 1,098,044 acre-feet, and its current conservation storage sits at 1,081,378 acre-feet. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lake Austin is currently 96.2% full as of Friday afternoon, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/waterdatafortexas.org\/reservoirs\/individual\/austin\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Water Data for Texas.<\/a> Its water levels have remained the same since mid-July. Lake Austin&#8217;s capacity is 23,972 acre-feet, and its current conservation storage is 23,065 acre-feet.<\/p>\n<p>As of Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/waterdatafortexas.org\/reservoirs\/individual\/georgetown\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Lake Georgetown is 95.3% full<\/a>, signaling significant progress since half a year ago when it was only 73%. The beloved reservoir is located\u00a0in Williamson County, about 25 miles north of Austin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Its capacity is 38,005 acre-feet, and its current conservation storage is 36,204 acre-feet.<\/p>\n<p>Granger Lake is 100% full as of Friday, August 14, according to its <a href=\"https:\/\/waterdatafortexas.org\/reservoirs\/individual\/granger\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Water Data.<\/a> Its capacity is currently the same number as its current conservation storage: \u00a051,822 acre-feet. This lake is located about 50 miles northeast of Austin near Taylor in Williamson County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lake Marble Falls is 95.8% full in August, a 0.6% increase over the summer, per its current state <a href=\"https:\/\/waterdatafortexas.org\/reservoirs\/individual\/marble-falls\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Water Data<\/a>. In late June, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/lifestyle\/outdoors\/article\/austin-area-lake-levels-june-2026-22276635.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">lake was 95.2% full,<\/a> so this month&#8217;s numbers show just a slight increase.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The lake has a capacity of 7,597 acre-feet, and the current conservation storage is \u00a07,281 acre-feet.<\/p>\n<p>Lake Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ)<\/p>\n<p>Lake L. B. Johnson is almost completely full with <a href=\"https:\/\/waterdatafortexas.org\/reservoirs\/individual\/lyndon-b-johnson\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">98.5% of water currently in the lake<\/a>, which is the same level as it was in late June. Lake LBJ and Lake Marble Falls are two separate, distinct reservoirs along the Texas Highland Lakes in Marble Falls, about 50 miles northwest of Austin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Its capacity is 112,778 acre-feet, and its current conservation storage sits at 111,045 acre-feet.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s an update on where all the Austin-area lake levels stand as of Friday, August 14: Lake Travis&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,10428,820],"class_list":["post-408126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-mysaoutdoors","tag-mysastaff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}