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Alcoa Lake is the result of the impoundment of Sandy Creek, seven miles southwest of Rockdale in Milam County. At the base of the dam, Sandy Creek joins the East Yegua Creek. Alcoa Lake is owned and operated by the Aluminum Company of America for industrial purposes at the site, and in recent years for recreational use. Construction of the lake ...
Rockdale was the site of a large Alcoa aluminium smelting facility, which could produce 1.67 million pounds of aluminum per day. [11] The Alcoa plant profoundly changed the city, as noted in a Saturday Evening Post article by Rockdale native George Sessions Perry. Within a few years of its arrival in 1952, Rockdale almost doubled in population ...
Lakes of Parkway is a gated community in western Houston, Texas, also the most southern community in the Energy Corridor. [1] It has 888 lots. [ 2 ] Peggy O'Hare of the Houston Chronicle stated in 2002 that the houses were "upscale".
Sandow was constructed by Alcoa in 1951 to power its nearby aluminium smelting facility. [1] Operations of Sandow's first three units began in 1954 with a nearby man-made reservoir called Alcoa Lake utilized to cool the plant. [2] In the 1980s, Alcoa commenced a mid-life update to Units 1–3 at a cost of $63 million. After its completion ...
Drivers in Alcoa are being asked to use alternate routes after firefighters responded to a fire off of Topside Road.
Greenspoint is serviced by a special management district, the North Houston District, which was created by the Texas Legislature in 1991 to fund infrastructure, public safety, branding, and planning initiatives. [45]
Gulfton is a community in Southwest Houston, Texas, United States [1] 3.2 sq mi (8.3 km 2).It is located between the 610 Loop and Beltway 8, west of the City of Bellaire, southeast of Interstate 69/U.S. Highway 59, and north of Bellaire Boulevard.
The names of many of the oldest roads in the area indicate the two towns they connect. For example, Addicks-Satsuma Road once linked the small town of Addicks with the small town of Satsuma, Texas once located near the intersection of Highway 6 and Highway 290. Remnants of this road are still in use today as a part of Highway 6 north of ...