Lake Meredith
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| Location: | Texas , United States | ||
| Specialty: | Recreation area on a reservoir of the Canadian River | ||
| Next city: | Amarillo | ||
| Surface: | 187.6 km² | ||
| Founding: | November 28, 1990 | ||
| Visitors: | 1,037,600 (2006) | ||
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Lake Meredith is a reservoir of the Canadian River in the north of the US state Texas . It was created after the Sandford Dam was completed in 1965 by the Bureau of Reclamation . The Canadian River was dammed to provide drinking water to eleven cities in the region, including Amarillo and Lubbock . In addition, the lake was planned as a local recreation area . He is now named after Austin A. Meredith, a city manager of Borger died of the concept developed for the dam and two years before completion.
The water area is around 12 km², the maximum water depth 58 m and the total capacity of the lake 3 million cubic meters of water.
history
The recreation area around the lake was originally named Sandford Reservoir after the dam and was under the administration of the National Park Service from the start . In 1972 the lake and recreation area were renamed Lake Meredith Recreation Area in honor of Austin A. Meredith . Since 1990 the lake has been upgraded to a National Recreation Area under the name Lake Meredith National Recreation Area . It includes around 180 km² of the surrounding hills in the form of flat table mountains , most of which are prairie . Tourist facilities are three boat ramps and a marina . The recreational use consists mainly in motor boating and sailing, as well as fishing . Adjacent to the reservoir is the Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument , which is managed by the National Park Service Office in Fritch together with the National Recreation Area.
Web links
- National Park Service: Lake Meredith National Recreation Area (official site; English)
- Canadian River Municipal Water Authority: Lake Meredith ( June 18, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive )
- Lake Meredith. In: The Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), 1999 ff (English, tshaonline.org ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lake Meredith. In: The Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), 1999 ff (English, tshaonline.org ).
- ^ Lake Meredith National Recreation Area. In: The Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), 1999 ff (English, tshaonline.org ).