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Longhorn Dam impounds Lady Bird Lake. The City of Austin constructed Longhorn Dam in 1960 to form Town Lake. The city needed the reservoir to serve as a cooling pond for the Holly Street Power Plant, which operated from 1960 until 2007. [2] Before 1971, the shoreline of Town Lake was mostly a mixture of weeds, unkempt bushes, and trash. [3]
Lake Austin, formerly Lake McDonald, is a water reservoir on the Colorado River in Austin, Texas. The reservoir was formed in 1939 by the construction of Tom Miller Dam by the Lower Colorado River Authority. Lake Austin is one of the seven Highland Lakes created by the LCRA, and is used for flood control, electrical power generation, and ...
In 1965 the Austin chapter of the National Association of Women in Construction approached the City with a proposal to contribute a civic structure to beautify the Town Lake shoreline. [2] On November 9, 1965, City Council approved NAWIC's plan to build a public gazebo that would provide a scenic view of downtown Austin and of the lake from ...
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From 1962 to 1998, the signature event absorbed much of the city, especially in and around Town Lake, now known as Lady Bird Lake. "Sponsored by the Austin Chamber of Commerce, early Aqua Fests ...
Lady Bird Lake (formerly Town Lake) ... Lake Austin: Tom Miller Dam: 1940 Lower Colorado River Authority: 1,830 20.25 1,300 24,644 1,590 100.5 Lady Bird Lake:
Recent articles in the American-Statesman about improvements to the Butler Hike and Bike Trail on the north shore of Lady Bird Lake in East Austin referred to a lonely "unnamed peninsula." Huh.
The river is an important source of water for farming, cities, and electrical power production. Major man-made reservoirs on the river include Lake Buchanan, Inks Lake, Lake LBJ, Lake Marble Falls, Lake Travis, Lake Austin, Town Lake now called Lady Bird Lake in Austin. Collectively, these lakes are known as the Highland Lakes.