Marble Falls Flood 2007

The annual rainfall in marble falls a city in the texas hill country about 45 miles northwest of austin texas is nearly 30 inches per year.

Marble falls flood 2007.

The rains in town this week weren t much to comment on they said it was the water coursing downstream from the llano river to the colorado river that caused much of the damage. Water from the colorado river pours over the max starcke dam tuesday oct. The headwaters of lake marble falls and lake travis had 19 inches of rain totals recorded. 16 2018 in marble falls texas.

In recent years two major events have affected burnet county. The county is susceptible to riverine flooding as well as urban flooding such as low lying areas and street flooding and flash flooding. Five feet of water the result of a powerful flash flood swept through this city of. Usually it s a dry bed but just look at it now.

The flood hazard areas of the city of marble falls are subject to periodic inundation which may result in loss of life and property health and safety hazards disruption of commerce and governmental services and extraordinary public expenditures for flood protection and relief. In 24 hours beginning the morning of june 26 nearly 20 inches fell. The llano and colorado rivers meet at kingsland and the national weather service said. Marble falls flood 2007 at the creek where i live.

Marble falls one of the hardest hit areas received 18 inches 460 mm of rain in a period six hours. While marble falls has seen serious floods before in 1997 and 2007 people here said this one was different in how it came from the river.