Cedar Creek Lake — Tarrant Regional Water District
Cedar Creek shoreline is managed by the Tarrant Regional Water District (TRWD). Any excavation, fill, or significant grading within 100 feet of normal pool elevation requires coordination — sometimes a permit, sometimes just notification, depending on the scope.
Vegetation buffer rules apply: you can't clear-cut shoreline trees without violating the buffer. View-clearing is allowed but it's selective — limbing up, thinning understory, removing individual trees with replanting requirements. We work this line regularly in Athens and around Gun Barrel City.
Lake Fork — Sabine River Authority
Lake Fork is managed by the Sabine River Authority. Setback enforcement is similar but the specific rules differ — generally, any shoreline work within 50 feet of normal pool needs coordination. Lake Fork also has unique rules around dock construction that affect adjacent grading.
Most of our Lake Fork work is in Emory and Point, on the Rains County side, and around Alba on the Wood County side.
Stop-work orders happen
We've been called in to remediate situations where another contractor didn't check the setback and started work inside the buffer. The lake authority issues a stop-work order, and the remediation — replanting, re-grading, sometimes structural changes — costs more than getting it right would have.
Lakefront is one of the cases where calling first matters more than starting fast.
Bottom Line
If you're working on Cedar Creek, Lake Fork, or Lake Tawakoni shoreline, we coordinate the authority review as part of the scope. It adds two to four weeks at the front end and saves you from the alternative.