Lane City Reservoir

By Kiah Collier The Texas Tribune Originally published Dec. 5, 2015 The Lower Colorado River Authority says a $255 million reservoir it is building in southeast Texas won't reduce freshwater flows into Matagorda Bay enough to hurt aquatic life, but the organization is refusing to release the hydrological modeling that led to it that conclusion. The authority — the largest water and power supplier in Central Texas — has told the Matagorda Bay Foundation it can't have the information and asked state Attorney General Ken Paxton for an opinion shielding the data from the state's open records laws. If Paxton agrees, [...]