Texas Highland Lakes
The Texas Highland Lakes are six reservoirs of the Texas Colorado River in the Texas Hill Country above and in Austin . They were built between 1935 and 1951 by the Lower Colorado River Authority , which continues to operate them. The reservoirs are used to regulate floods . All six lakes also produce electricity and are popular recreational areas. The two largest - Lake Travis and Lake Buchanan - also serve as large drinking and process water reservoirs . Together the lakes have a regular capacity of 2.2 million acre-feet (≈2.84 km³).
Lakes
| Downstream order | Surname | dam | surface | completion | Coordinates of the dam |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Lake Buchanan | Buchanan Dam | 90.4 km² | 1939 | 30 ° 45 ′ 7 ″ N , 98 ° 25 ′ 7 ″ W. |
| 2. | Inks Lake | Inks dam | 3.36 km² | 1938 | 30 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ N , 98 ° 22 ′ 52 ″ W. |
| 3. | Lake Lyndon B. Johnson | Wirtz dam | 26.4 km² | 1951 | 30 ° 39 ′ 19 ″ N , 98 ° 25 ′ 47 ″ W. |
| 4th | Lake Marble Falls | Max Starcke Dam | 2.7 km² | 1951 | 30 ° 33 ′ 41 " N , 98 ° 15 ′ 33" W. |
| 5. | Lake Travis | Mansfield Dam | 76.6 km² | 1942 | 30 ° 26 '25 " N , 98 ° 1' 13" W. |
| 6th | Lake Austin | Tom Miller Dam | 6.5 km² | 1939 | 30 ° 17 ′ 46 " N , 97 ° 47 ′ 11" W. |
Others
The campus of the Texas Tech University System in Marble Falls is named after the lakes Highland Lakes Campus.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frequently asked questions about LCRA. Lower Colorado River Authority, October 23, 2009; accessed October 31, 2009 .
- ↑ Overview. (No longer available online.) Texas Tech University at Highland Lakes, archived from the original on May 27, 2010 ; Retrieved November 1, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
