Upper Guadalupe River Authority

The Upper Guadalupe River Authority or UGRA was created in 1939 by the Texas Legislature as a quasi-governmental entity to manage the Guadalupe River as a water resource in Kerr County, Texas. The authority is chartered with the mandate "to control, develop, store, preserve and distribute" the water resources of the Upper Guadalupe River watershed.^[1] The organization is managed by a nine-person Board of Directors appointed to five-year terms by the Governor of Texas.^[2] The UGRA is a taxing authority, and derives a portion of its funding from property taxes levied against residents of Kerr County. The authority operated a Regional Water Testing Laboratory and a county-wide flood alert system, but does not operate any dams.^[1]

Upper Guadalupe River Authority

Abbreviation	UGRA
Formation	1939
Type	Government-owned corporation
Purpose	Water management
Headquarters	125 Lehmann Dr. Suite 100, Kerrville, Texas, 78028
Region served	Kerr County, Texas
President	Bob Waller
Main organ	Board of Directors
Website	http://www.ugra.org/

About a decade after it was installed, in the late ‘80s the flood alert system became antiquated and broken. The river authority ultimately shut it down in 1999, saying it was “unreliable with some of the system’s stations not reporting information,” according to an article in the Kerrville Daily Times.

See also

• Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority
• List of Texas river authorities