AMARILLO, TEXAS -- The record-setting drought from this summer has reared its ugly head again.
Now, there'll be no pumping out of Lake Meredith.
The Canadian River Municipal Water Authority voted Wednesday to stop pumping water from the lake next year.
That means all 11 of its member cities, including Amarillo, will now have to get their water from wells.
"I think Amarillo is probably one of the cities that are least affected, because they're coming online with their Potter County well field as we speak, basically they'll be on before the end of the year, if I understand it, so they're fairly prepared to a degree. I think may of the other cities are less prepared," said Kent Satterwhite, CRMWA Director.
In September, C.R.M.W.A. dug an experimental channel trying to refill the lake.
Satterwhite says it worked once but with no rain, lake levels never recovered, and he doesn't know when water will be pumped out of there again.
