JACKSONVILLE — Our ongoing drought is certainly doing more harm than good. But one East Texas lake community is taking advantage of dropping water lines. Both Lake Jacksonville residents as well as the city are doing their part to tidy up the lake. The city is enhancing boat ramps by removing silt that’s washed up and collected over the years. Officials say it’s also a good time to remove exposed stumps. If the lake’s full, they say, you don’t really know whether a stump needs to be cleaned out or not — but now you can see exactly what needs to be removed, and it’s easier to remove a stump while it’s exposed. City staffers tell KETK two of the lake’s boat ramps are closed, and one is barely accessible. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
JACKSONVILLE — Our ongoing drought is certainly doing more harm than good. But one East Texas lake community is taking advantage of dropping water lines. Both Lake Jacksonville residents as well as the city are doing their part to tidy up the lake. The city is enhancing boat ramps by removing silt that’s washed up … Continue reading Drought Allows Lake Jacksonville Improvements<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 08:22:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138242"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138592,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138242\/revisions\/138592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}