DAM AT BASTOP LAKE BREACHED

  

Water that overflowed after the Bastrop State Park dam broke Monday afternoon has drained into the river, leaving a 7-acre lake completely empty, the Bastrop County Office of Emergency Management and Texas Parks and Wildlife said.

The campground has been evacuated, but county officials are worried about damage downstream. People living along Copperas Creek and in the Eastern Tahitian Village Area were asked to seek higher ground.

County officials said State Highway 71 was briefly flooded from water spilling out of the park.