Contact

Lake Travis Forecast is built and run by one person, Nick Bhavsar, in the Austin, Texas area. There is no company behind it, no support desk and no contact form — just an inbox. The quickest way to reach it is email: [email protected]. Expect a reply within a day or two; a report about a wrong number usually gets one the same day, because a wrong number is the thing this site most needs to know about.

What is worth writing about

• A number that looks wrong. A level, temperature, wind figure or forecast that disagrees with what you can see at the lake or on an official gauge. Say which page, roughly when you looked, and what you saw instead. Every level on this site is cross-checked against three gauges, so a real disagreement is rare and worth chasing.
• Boat ramp corrections. LCRA publishes a minimum lake level and an operator for each ramp and nothing else, and both go stale. If a minimum has changed, an operator or phone number is wrong, or a ramp has closed or reopened, the ramps page can be corrected the same day.
• Something you saw at the dam. Floodgate operations are read from LCRA's reports, which lag. A photo or a time you saw gates open helps validate the gate archive.
• A question the site does not answer. Several pages here — depth, drought, full pool — exist because someone searched for something nothing answered. If you had to go elsewhere, say what for.
• Using the data. Every number on the site is available as open JSON (the endpoints are listed in the machine-readable summary), and the daily history dataset is published under CC BY 4.0. You do not need permission to use it; a note saying where it ended up is appreciated, and a link back is the only thing asked in return.

What this inbox cannot do

It cannot tell you whether a ramp is open today, whether LCRA will open the floodgates, or what the lake will do next month. This site is independent and is not affiliated with the Lower Colorado River Authority or any agency. For official flood-operations information and ramp status, LCRA is the authority; for anything that is an emergency on the water, call 911. Forecasts here are estimates for planning a weekend, not operational guidance, and the methodology page is honest about how wrong they can be.

What happens to a report

A reported error is checked against the source gauges and the stored forecast runs. If it is real, it is fixed, and the fix is recorded so the same mistake cannot come back quietly. If it turns out the site was right and the other source was wrong, you get an explanation rather than a brush-off — that has happened, and it is the more interesting outcome. Nothing you send is shared, sold or added to a list; the site has no newsletter and no accounts, and the privacy page covers what little it does collect. More about the site and how the forecast is built is on the about page.