Four years after a dam failure left Lake Dunlap mostly dry, residents are seeing their efforts to restore the lake pay off as it begins to fill again.
Read the first partAs he stood on his wooden boat dock a dozen feet above grassy ground, Jeff Lindley looked out towards what used to be Lake Dunlap. The dry marsh before him gently sloped toward the Guadalupe River roughly 200 yards away, its shores shrunken from the lingering drought and intense August sun overhead.
Now, more than four years later, Lake Dunlap is coming back to life, the state-owned dam restored. The gates on the dam were closed for the first time on Thursday, starting the slow process of refilling the lake. In the weeks following the dam’s failure, many of the lake’s residents found their private wells had run dry. Others whose businesses had been dependent on the lake’s recreational offerings and its visitors were forced to consider if they wanted to stay, move or close.One of those residents was J Harmon, president of the Preserve Lake Dunlap Association , a group of lakefront homeowners who had made it their mission to protect the lake and its integrity.
The dam didn’t qualify as a disaster, Harmon said, so it did not qualify for Federal Emergency Management Agency funds or similar types of support. Even though several local representatives had stepped in to try to help — Harmon said state Rep. John Kuempel and former state Sen. John Montford were especially helpful — their group couldn’t secure state money.
“So that’s when we started coming up with different plans,” he said. “Plan A didn’t work, Plan B didn’t work, and none of it worked until we got down to Plan F. And that’s the one that they said would work.”
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