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A devastating flood occurred in Fort Worth on April 12, 1922. The damage and loss of life was catastrophic. As a result, the Tarrant County Commissioner's Court on October 7, 1924, created the Tarrant County Water Improvement District Number One.
Why does Fort Worth need a water district? In 1922, rainfall caused a deadly flood to surge through Fort Worth. The 11 inches of rainfall caused the Trinity River levees to overflow, and killed 10 ...
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Fort Worth gets its water from the Tarrant County Regional Water District, which draws from six local lakes. “The West Fork system includes Lake Bridgeport, Eagle Mountain Lake and Lake Worth.
These cisterns collectively held 63,000 gallons of water. In 1882 Fort Worth constructed a system of water mains. This system had six miles of piping and a capacity of 4 million gallons of water a day. The city also installed an electric fire alarm system, the first ever in Texas, and 11 Gamewell pull boxes. However these and other fire ...
The Fort Worth Water Gardens, built in 1974, is located on the south end of downtown Fort Worth between Houston and Commerce Streets next to the Fort Worth Convention Center. The 4.3-acre (1.7 hectare) Water Gardens were designed by noted New York architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee and were dedicated to the City of Fort Worth by the Amon ...
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