Lake Lyndon B. Johnson
| Lake Lyndon B. Johnson | |||||||||
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| Coordinates | 30 ° 30 ′ 31 ″ N , 98 ° 26 ′ 26 ″ W | ||||||||
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| Construction time: | 1949-1951 | ||||||||
| Height of the barrier structure : | 44.3 m | ||||||||
| Height of the structure crown: | 118.3 feet (≈36.1 m) | ||||||||
| Crown length: | 5,491 feet (≈ 1,674 m) | ||||||||
| Base width: | 80 feet (≈24 m) | ||||||||
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| Water surface | 6,534 acres (≈26.4 km²) | ||||||||
| Storage space | 138,500 acre-feet (≈0.17 km³) | ||||||||
The Lake Lyndon B. Johnson , briefly Lake LBJ , and 1965 Lake Granite Shoals is one of the Wirtz Dam dammed lake in the county Llano and Burnet in the Texas Hill Country . The lake is one of six large reservoirs called Texas Highland Lakes on the Texas Colorado River owned by the Lower Colorado River Authority and is primarily used for hydroelectric generation of electricity - the power station has two generators with 22,500 kW each. At the northern end of the lake, the second important tributary, the Llano River, flows into the lake. In addition to generating electricity, the lake also serves as a popular recreational area and is known for its abundance of fish.
history
The construction of the lake was planned during the First World War and decided by the Texan Board for Hydraulic Engineering in May 1926. It was not until 1949 that construction of the dam began; after filling began in May 1951, the dam was completed in November 1951. Electric power generation began on June 27 of the same year.
In 1952, the dam in honor of the first president who was Lower Colorado River Authority Alvin Wirtz as Wirtz Dam baptized. In 1965 the lake was renamed in honor of the incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson , who "as a member of the US House of Representatives and Senate made decisive progress in building the lake". The lake is in Johnson's former constituency; He owned a ranch in the immediate vicinity of the lake, where he received official guests as Vice and President of the United States .
Web links
- Seth D. Breeding: Lake Lyndon B. Johnson. In: The Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), 1999 ff (English, tshaonline.org ).
- Cleo Lafoy Dovell, See D. Breeding: Wirtz (Alvin) Dam and Lake Lyndon B. Johnson . In: Report 46 - Dams and Reservoirs in Texas: History and Descriptive Information , Texas Water Development Board, Austin, December 31, 1966, pp. 131-134; twdb.state.tx.us ( Memento from August 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 57.4 MB).