The City of Boerne announced on Tuesday, June 23, that recent rainfall across San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country has resulted in one of the “most significant” rises in water levels at Boerne City Lake in the last 26 years.
The city confirmed that between June 14 and June 22, the lake level rose from 29 feet and 3 inches to 39 feet and 1 inch in just eight days, according to a news release. That’s a total increase of 9.8 feet. Some rain gauges showed more than eight inches of water fell during that time.
This is the third most significant water-level increase recorded over the course of a single week in the past 26 years of the lake’s history. In past years, only two other historic flooding events have surpassed it. The summer 2002 floods caused the lake to rise by 23.5 feet in one week, and during the city’s May 2015 floods, water levels climbed by almost 18 feet in three days…