Neighborhood known for flooding not immune to drought


Posted: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:03 AM - 12,037 Readers

By: Bob Robuck


Graveyard Point on Lake Travis is a place that is known for flooding first when heavy rains hit Central Texas.Graveyard Point on Lake Travis is a place that is known for flooding first when heavy rains hit Central Texas. The reason for the flooding is because the neighborhood sits below the flood plain.

Now, residents of the community are encountering a completely new problem.

Neighbors agree it is an odd occurrence for them all. They are experiencing a huge lack of water.

Residents of the neighborhood are concerned the low lake level will expose old gravestones that gave the place its name. Most said this is the driest they have seen Graveyard Point in decades. Graveyard Point is a supreme example of a community that experiences extreme drought and extreme floods.

Residents of the neighborhood are concerned the low lake level will expose old gravestones that gave the place its name.

Sources said that hasn't happened in the past, and most of the burial ground was moved when the community developed.

"It's weird. I mean, every three years it floods. Now look at it," Neighbor David Kopeck said.

Lake levels are so low that Graveyard Point's wells are drying up, and neighbors are in sort of a panic.

"We're experiencing the drought probably worse than a lot of other people because we're not on city water," Neighbor Betty Kopeck said. "We're all on wells. We have one guy down the street whose well already dried up."

That neighbor is Jim Strubar, and his well dried up weeks ago.

"Luckily I have neighbors who have a deeper well, so I hooked onto their well right now just using garden hoses," Strubar said.

Some in the community have decided to pay and install storage tanks, but they still have to have water trucked in to fill them, though.




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