GBRA Closes Portion of Lake Dunlap After Unauthorized Stump Removal

(Lake Dunlap, TX) -- GBRA has imposed new restrictions for the remainder of the year, for portions of Lake Dunlap in Comal and Guadalupe Counties. Specifically, these new restrictions prohibit any boats or other motorized watercraft from using the portion of Lake Dunlap from the north end of Camp Porter Road to Lake Dunlap Dam. That order went into effect this past Friday and will continue through December 31st.

Lake Dunlap was recently lowered so that work crews could repair the hydroelectric dam, and then lowered even more so that crews could mark and remove tree stumps and other hazards. But late last week GBRA was notified that individuals acting on their own (and not part of the GBRA work crews) began the unauthorized removal of about 80 tree stumps. GBRA says that many of those stumps were simply cut off at water level, creating even more of a hazard to boats than was there before, and now crews will have to go in there and seek out those hazards and fully remove them.

In the meantime, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game wardens and sheriff’s deputies will ticket violators of those restrictions. Again, those are in place through Dec. 31st, on the part of Lake Dunlap from the north end of Camp Porter Road to Lake Dunlap Dam. For more information, contact GBRA at 830-379-5822.