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LCRA's mission is to enhance the lives of the Texans it serves through water stewardship, energy and community service. LCRA provides public power, manages the lower Colorado River, builds and operates transmission lines, owns public parks, and offers community services. [2] LCRA does not receive state appropriations or have the ability to levy ...
The Liga Colombiana de Radioaficionados (LCRA) (in English Colombian Amateur Radio League) is a national non-for profit organization for amateur radio enthusiasts in Colombia. The organization was founded in 1933 by Italo Amore, Gustavo Uribe, Roberto Jaramillo Ferro, and other radio enthusiasts.
The Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) built the dams to manage floods and generate hydroelectric power in the 1930s and 1940s. Lady Bird Lake (formerly Town Lake) and the respective Longhorn Dam are sometimes considered the seventh "honorary" lake and dam of the Highland Lakes despite being commissioned and managed by the City of Austin ...
Aerial shot of Lake Travis. Lake Travis is a reservoir on the Colorado River in central Texas in the United States.It is named in honor of William B. Travis. [1]Serving principally as a flood-control reservoir, Lake Travis' historical minimum to maximum water height change is nearly 100 feet. [2]
There is no room in Lake LBJ for additional water storage, and water that comes in must go out. Therefore, Lake LBJ is at a near constant level, but the level can fluctuate, especially during a flood. The LCRA lowers the lake periodically for maintenance on Wirtz Dam and to allow landowners to remove sediment around their docks.
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.
In 1962 the LCRA dam near Marble Falls was renamed Max Starcke Dam. [7] In 1966 Silurian outcrops near Llano , not previously recorded in Central Texas, were named Starcke Limestone in his honor. A natural salesman and a gregarious politician, Starcke was active in the Elks , the Masons , the Lions , the Rotary , and the Sons of Hermann , as ...
The lake serves primarily as a power plant cooling pond for the Sim Gideon Power Plant operated by the LCRA and the Lost Pines Power Project 1, owned by GenTex Power Corporation, a wholly owned affiliate of the LCRA. Lake Bastrop also serves as a venue for outdoor recreation, including fishing, boating, swimming, camping and picnicking, and is ...