Talk:Lake Travis

The LCRA link is dead, you can also use the http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/omg/weather.html From Univ of Texas  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.6.208.9 (talk) 20:28, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

August 2016: Updated to Reflect #1 / #2 Status for Highest Fatalities in Texas
For the record, I love Lake Travis and have lived on and around it for over 20 years now. Having said that, this article formerly read, prior to today's edits, like a Chamber of Commerce brochure. Recent and unending deaths on the lake clearly necessitate that we all show responsibility for an improvement that embraces the lake we love, yet points out the largest causes of deaths and -- most importantly -- how to best avoid them. I hope I've achieved a strong step in the right direction. --2602:306:BC24:8DF0:456C:DD75:A639:FD98 (talk) 21:57, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * The Wikipedia article on Lake Travis is not here so that self-appointed safety experts can advise people on how to boat safely and repeat statistics on boat safety that aren't specific to Lake Travis. I've left the stats that pertain to Lake Travis directly and removed the rest, your love of Lake Travis notwithstanding. This article is not the place to "show responsibility for an improvement that embraces the lake we love." Please see WP:NOT. The info you posted would be more appropriate on your own personal Lake Travis website, which you are free to build anytime you want. LAroboGuy (talk) 14:29, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

P.S. Someone apparently brand new to Wikipedia's "rollback" feature made a repeated mistake of rolling back all of my clearly substantially-researched edits. That's now apparently stopped, if not in any way been apologized for. But I do welcome, of course, constructive edits to my own. Done for now. --2602:306:BC24:8DF0:456C:DD75:A639:FD98 (talk) 21:57, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

P.P.S. Apology for the rollback(s) has been issued...and accepted. --2602:306:BC24:8DF0:456C:DD75:A639:FD98 (talk) 23:05, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * You threatened an established editor here with your statement "You may expect your rollback authority to be removed in the very near-immediate future." You're the one who should be issuing an apology to that editor. That behavior is unacceptable. LAroboGuy (talk) 14:29, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

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General Safety Information being added
An anonymous editor has been adding general safety information to this page for a while, over and over again, which I don't think is appropriate. I keep reverting it but that doesn't seem to do any good. Can anyone help with making sure this doesn't keep happening? thank you. LAroboGuy (talk) 19:00, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
 * A fairly recent article outlines a documentary made by the Austin TV station KXAN. Although the article is essentially a blurb for the video, and contains the usual bleating about the families of victims and how the government should be "doing more," it does have some useful information about the underwater hazards in the lake, as related by a scuba diver with years of experience. I have not seen the documentary video. Also, this information is nothing new: there have been similar articles over the years about the trees that remain underwater, years after the lake was filled, and underwater buildings and construction sites. There are also shallow places, even in the middle of the lake, that pose a hazard to boats and show above the water when the lake level is low, creating the "Sometimes Islands." Since the lake level varies so much, a place that is safe to dive one year may by unsafe the next, and people sometimes "cliff dive" into the lake and are killed. The continuing rumors about gigantic catfish at the base of Mansfield Dam capable of swallowing a human in a gulp and the dreaded "crack in Mansfield Dam" which threatens the entire City of Austin should NOT be mentioned in this article unless we add a "Folklore" section. Wastrel Way (talk) Eric

Five boats sank, not four
Five boats sank in Lake Travis, not four. I was not able to make this correction because there is no "Edit" button at the top of this article. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 11:44, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Irrelevant info
September 2020 boat sinkings

On September 5, 2020, a boat parade took place in support of Donald Trump. The Travis County Sheriff's office reported that they had received multiple calls involving boats in distress, and that several boats had sunk.[7] The weather was calm, but the boats generated significant wake as they began to move together, which subsequently sank at least five boats.[8] The hashtag #dumbkirk trended on Twitter following the incident.[9]

This seems irrelevant today. 77.248.235.127 (talk) 10:36, 10 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Could probably be added to a general history section. Overall I think it should stay - it was hilarious.  2A00:23C4:3E44:2C01:F922:E57E:7E65:5835 (talk) 11:54, 11 May 2024 (UTC)