Inks Lake

Inks Lake
	Inks Lake
Tributaries:	Colorado River
Drain:	Colorado River
Larger places nearby:	Burnet
	Texas , United States
Coordinates	30 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ N , 98 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 30 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ N , 98 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ W
	Data on the structure
Construction time:	1936-1938
	Data on the reservoir
Water surface	800 acres (~ 3.2 km²)
Storage space	17,500 acre-feet (~ 0.02 km³)

The Inks Lake is from the Roy Inks Dam dammed lake in the county Llano and Burnet in the Texas Hill Country . Its dam is just 4 miles downstream from the much larger Lake Buchanan . The lake is one of six large reservoirs known as Texas Highland Lakes on the Texas Colorado River of the Lower Colorado River Authority , it serves mainly as a side lake for Lake Buchanan. Together with this, Inks Lake forms a pumped storage power plant with a pump capacity of 840 cubic feet / s (~ 23.8 m³ / s). In addition, the Roy-Inks Dam has a small - the smallest of all Texas Highland Lakes - hydroelectric generator with a nominal output of 12,500 kW. Its water level is usually kept constant even during persistent droughts; it is only used as an additional reservoir in the event of severe flooding. The dam was built in 1936-38 and electricity production began in June 1938. The lake and dam are named after Roy B. Inks , a director of the Lower Colorado River Authority board.

State park

Inks Lake State Park is located around the lake, it is 1201 acre (≈4.9 km²) and is used for recreation in the natural landscape. The area was acquired by the Lower Colorado River Authority in 1940 and opened to the public as a state park in 1950.

literature

Cleo Lafoy Dovell, See D. Breeding: Buchanen Dam and Lake Buchanan . In: Report 46 - Dams and Reservoirs in Texas: History and Descriptive Information . Texas Water Development Board, Austin, December 31, 1966, pp. 68–71; twdb.state.tx.us ( Memento from August 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 57.4 MB)

Web links

Seth D. Breeding: Inks Lake. In: The Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), 1999 ff (English, tshaonline.org ).
Vivian Elizabeth Smyrl: Inks Lake State Park. In: The Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), 1999 ff (English, tshaonline.org ).

Individual evidence

↑ Cleo Lafoy Dovell, See D. Breeding: Buchanen Dam and Lake Buchanan . In: Report 46 - Dams and Reservoirs in Texas: History and Descriptive Information . Texas Water Development Board, Austin, December 31, 1966, pp. 68–71; twdb.state.tx.us ( Memento from August 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 57.4 MB)
↑ Inks Dam. In: lcra.org . Lower Colorado River Authority, August 28, 2009, accessed November 3, 2009 .
^ Inks Lake State Park. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, accessed November 3, 2009 .

[1] Cleo Lafoy Dovell, See D. Breeding: Buchanen Dam and Lake Buchanan . In: Report 46 - Dams and Reservoirs in Texas: History and Descriptive Information . Texas Water Development Board, Austin, December 31, 1966, pp. 68–71; twdb.state.tx.us ( Memento from August 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 57.4 MB)

[2] Inks Dam. In: lcra.org . Lower Colorado River Authority, August 28, 2009, accessed November 3, 2009 .

[3] Inks Lake State Park. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, accessed November 3, 2009 .