Texturing of geomembranes results in reduction in both the break strength and strain. This can be evidenced from the lower break strength/strains set as the minimum requirements for textured geomembranes compared to those required for smooth geomembranes by GRI-GM13. It may also effect the load vs elongation curves since in some textured specimens examined there was a drop in the load that took place immediately before failure and this was not observed in smooth geomembranes. For these load vs elongation curves, there are two possible ways to interpret break strength. The first method is to calculate the break strength as the stress value corresponding to the curve. The second way is to interpret the break strength as the inflection point of the curve just before failure that would result in higher values compared to first method. This paper investigates the effect of texturing the four different geomembranes produced by three manufacturers incubated in a synthetic municipal solid waste leachate at 85oC on their load vs elongation curves. Based on the results for a six-month incubation duration, the load vs elongation curves for these textured and their equal smooth geomembrabnes were compared and different ways of break strength interpretation were discussed.