Rain fills Lake Lavon, which is good news for Frisco water users

The good news for the week is that Lake Lavon is on the rise. As of February 5th, the level was 484.3 feet, only 7.7 feet low. One year ago today, the level was 482.1 feet. Thus, we are 2.2 feet higher than one year ago at this time and almost at the highest level we recorded last year.

We received 7 inches of rainfall in January, which is 4.5 inches higher than January 2006. We also used 226.6 million gallons less in January than January of 2006. We averaged 18 million gallons a day in January 2006 and we average 10.7 million gallons in January of 2007. That is 40.5% less water over January of last year.

We currently have 297,600 acre-ft per year available to us (104k from Lavon, 77.3k from Texoma, 15.5k from Tawakoni, 43.6 from Wilson Creek reuse plant and 57.2k from Lake Chapman). Additional sources include the Upper Sabine Basin Project, 50-80k acre-ft per year with a projected completion date of January, 2008. The East Fork Reuse project at 81-102k acre ft per year with a projected date of April 2008 and the Lower Bois D'Arc Creek Reservoir with 123k acre-ft per year with a projected completion date of 2018.