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The Texas Water Development Board is an agency of the government of Texas with authority over water development in the state. The Board appoints directors for regional water development agencies such as the Lower Neches Valley Authority. [1] In the 2007 Texas constitutional amendment election, Proposition 16 on the ballot passed with more than ...
It has a drainage area of 832 square miles, a maximum capacity of 228,000 acre-feet (74 billion gallons), and sits at 926 feet above sea level [18] Wichita Falls is authorized by the Texas Water Development Board to utilize up to 45,000 acre-feet of water annually for municipal purposes [19]
Lake served on the Texas Water Development Board beginning in December 2015, before becoming chairman of the board in 2018. [2] While on the board, he oversaw the implementation of a Senate Bill that established Texas' first flood infrastructure fund and statewide planning following Hurricane Harvey. [3]
Texas' water infrastructure, such as dams, pipelines, and reservoirs, is aging and often not equipped to handle modern water management challenges. Leakage and inefficiencies exacerbate the problem.
In Texas, there are 98 of these districts, covering nearly 70% of the state, according to the Texas Water Development Board. The Upper Trinity Groundwater Conservation District has the following ...
May 30—AUSTIN — State Representative Brooks Landgraf (R-Odessa) hosted a virtual meeting between Odessa city officials and leadership at the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) on Thursday to ...
Amistad Dam (Spanish: Presa la Amistad) is a major embankment dam across the Rio Grande between Texas, United States, and Coahuila, Mexico.Built to provide irrigation water storage, flood control, and hydropower generation, it is the largest dam along the international boundary reach of the Rio Grande. [1]
Critics of the prospective 66,000-acre lake took turns sounding off on the project’s potential environmental and economic costs during a public Texas Water Development Board meeting in Arlington ...