Water below Mansfield Dam is called run-of-the-river (ROR). Entities have rights to this water dating before LCRA was formed. (Austin's water rights [6/30/1913] were established before and are senior to LCRA's. Some others are also.) LCRA must release this water from Mansfield Dam as the entities request it.

LCRA has purchased 4 ROR water rights.

Garwood	133,000 AFY
Gulf Coast	262,500 AFY
Lakeside	186,250 AFY
Pierce Ranch	55,000 AFY

The Garwood water rights are senior (11/1/1900) to both Austin and LCRA. LCRA wanted to move the Garwood water rights diversion point from Colorado County in the lower basin up to Lake Travis to allow them to get more money for selling to municipalities.  Now Matagorda County has businesses that want to pay for that water. The permit to move the diversion point is currently at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) in technical review. With the current probable 25% in water needs in our basin, much of it in Matagorda County, wonder just how fast this Permit might come out of technical review?

Does LCRA need the additional "paper water" from ROR rights in Lake Travis to satisfy the current deficit that LCRA has (445,226 AFY of firm water to sell and having sold over 507,000AFY), or does it need the rights downstream for Matagorda County?

The Leander inter-basin transfer contract (currently in administrative review at TCEQ) states, "...LCRA may supply water for this contract from Garwood's Remaining Right only following approval by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality..."