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Lake Whitney is a flood control reservoir on the main stem of the Brazos River in Texas. It is located on River Mile Marker 442 and controls drainage for 17,656 square miles (45,730 km 2 ) of Texas and parts of New Mexico.
Lake Whitney was created in 1951 when the United States Army Corps of Engineers constructed a dam on the Brazos River in order to prevent flooding in downstream communities such as Waco. [ 2 ] The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department leased 775-acres along the east shore of Lake Whitney for Lake Whitney State Park from the United States ...
The Whitney Dam, located on the upper Brazos, provides hydroelectric power, flood control, and irrigation to enable efficient cotton growth in the river valley. [4] A small municipal dam (Lake Brazos Dam) is near the downstream city limit of Waco at the end of the Baylor campus; it raises the level of the river through the city to form a town lake.
The Whitney Pond Dam is located on the Whitman River across Center Street in Ashburnham. According to the Mass Dam Office inspection done in 2017, if the town does not remove or repair the dam, ...
Toledo Bend Dam: Sabine River (Texas–Louisiana) Hydro 92 Sabine River Authority of Texas 1969 [73] Tom Miller Dam: Colorado River (Texas) Hydro 17 Lower Colorado River Authority: 1940 [74] Whitney Dam: Bosque and Hill counties, Texas Hydro 43 United States Army Corps of Engineers: 1951 [75] [76] Wirtz Dam: Llano and Burnet counties, Texas ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Texas.. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).
About a mile upriver from the Narrows, the Whitney Development Company nearly completed the granite Whitney Dam and a five-mile long diversion canal, and began construction of a powerhouse at Palmer Mountain before the company declared bankruptcy in 1907 and all work ceased. The massive canal remains today, while the Whitney Dam lies beneath ...
The dam was described as in “fair” condition in a March 2023 inspection, the inventory said. The town of Lake Lure has been trying to replace the aging dam. As of June 2023, ...