If I recall correctly, City of Houston owns 2/3 of the "rights" to Lake Conroe and the San Jac River Authority owns the other 1/3. Which means that the residents of Conroe don't own diddly-squat.
But, if I was them, I would be upset if they started lowering the water during a drought. But, living on lake houston, I am upset that my water is this low... Not a thing we can do about it.
By the way, not my dock. I live in the same neighborhood, but on the other side in the "poor" section. These houses near the water are INCREDIBLE!!! Ours is just a regular house.
http://houston.uslakes.info/Level.asp
Check out this page. Interactive graph of the water level on L. Houston. The water has been steadily and quickly coming down, usually a .1' (approx 1-1/4") daily or every other day. Since they started to let water out of Conroe, it has stopped dropping and you can see a definite flat spot on the graph. The water is NOT coming up. They are letting enough water down to keep it from dropping below 7.5' low level. Below the graph are check boxes so you can superimpose previous years' graphs on top of the current year.
The guys up on the river around kingwood say they have seen a rise on the river, but by the time it opens up to the lake it spreads out so fast that there is no difference up or down.
Our next trip will be Livingston. I think we will wait for this next blast of heat to come through. It is too damned hot to be floating around on a boat.
By the way, it rained here hard last night, and is still raining lightly. Looks like a lot of the area around us got wet. Not enough to end the drought. And then we are supposed to have 103-107 degree temps over the next 3-5 days with humidity in the high teens to low 20% ranges. So our yards will just dry right back up in a day or two. And our lakes.