At the site of today's reservoir, there were already two reservoirs built at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the first, built from 1890 to 1893, originally had a storage space of 49,300 acre-feet (≈0.06 km³) , this shrank to 25,000 acre-feet (≈0.03 km³) within seven years due to sediment input; the brick dam was largely destroyed in a flood in 1900, see Austin Dam (Texas) . The second dam was built from 1911 to 1915, but was badly damaged by floods in 1915 and 1918 and largely destroyed in 1935. The third and current dam was built between 1938 and 1940. The water level of the lake is kept largely constant, as there are some parts of Austin on its banks.
Lake Austin, Travis County. In: The Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), 1999 ff (English, tshaonline.org ).
Cleo Lafoy Dovell and Seht D. Breeding: Miller (David) Dam and Lake Austin in Report 46 - Dams and Reservoirs in Texas: History and Descriptive Information , Texas Water Development Board, Austin, December 31, 1966, pp. 11-15 ( pdf ( Memento from August 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), 57.4 MB).
