It’s Sunday, April 26th as I write this post, and Lake Texoma is within an inch of full pool. That’s the blessing of recent heavy rains. With more rain in the forecast this week, we should definitely hit 617, which measurement is the number of feet above sea level. And it’s what the Army Corps of Engineers considers normal.

A look at the graph on the left sidebar of LakeTexoma.com will show you an interesting historical perspective, but nobody can predict the future.

I’m excited that we can get out on the lake without fear of jamming props and keels on hidden tree stumps. That’s a good thing, for sure.

And I’m excited the lake will attract plenty of visitors this year. That’s ALWAYS a good thing.

But I’m a little bit worried about the future of Lake Texoma, too, because millions of gallons of water are now traveling through the huge pipeline to Wylie, TX, and some of it passes through the new Panda Energy power generation plant in Sherman.

Clean, green power for north Texans, right? What’s not to like about that? Drought or flood or anything in between, Lake Texoma has never been drained to the extent it’s being drained now. And, it has never experienced what’s fixin’ to happen in the future.

Turns out, Grayson County Judge Bill Magers is excited, too, But for a totally different reason. Today, The Herald Democrat reported Magers as saying, “… I’m so excited for the city of Sherman to add Phase II…” He’s referring to an expansion of the Panda Energy generator already using millions of gallons of Lake Texoma water each year.

KTEN online reported the following quote from Sherman Mayor Cary Wacker in March 2014, as the plant was nearing completion, “What the Panda Plant will be doing is just using a portion of Sherman's water allocation so it's not additional water coming out of the lake.”

OK, I want to trust that Lake Texoma will rise and fall in its normal lake elevations, just as it has done since the Denison Dam was built in the 1940s. I want to believe that the new pipeline and the Panda Sherman Power Project water use and proposed expansion won’t compromise businesses and visitors on Lake Texoma each year.

Am I worrying for nothing? Thanks for posting your comments below.