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Lake Livingston is a reservoir located in Piney Woods in Houston, Madison, Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity and Walker counties in east Texas, United States.Lake Livingston was built and is owned and operated by the Trinity River Authority (TRA) of Texas under contract with the City of Houston for water-supply purposes. [1]
Lake Ray Roberts (formally Ray Roberts Lake) is an artificial 29,350-acre (119 km 2) American reservoir located 10 miles (20 km) north of Denton, Texas, between the cities of Pilot Point, Texas and Sanger, Texas. It is filled by a tributary of the Trinity River.
The Trinity River as viewed from Reunion Tower in Dallas in August 2015. The Trinity River is a 710-mile (1,140 km) [2] river, the longest with a watershed entirely within the U.S. state of Texas. It rises in extreme northern Texas, a few miles south of the Red River. The headwaters are separated by the high bluffs on the southern side of the ...
Lake Bridgeport has its origins as Bridgeport Reservoir, a component of the Trinity River canalization plan to prevent flooding along the West Fork of the Trinity River. Construction of the lake's dam began in 1929 and was completed in 1931. The estimated cost to complete the project was $2 million.
Benbrook Lake (also known as Benbrook Reservoir) is a reservoir on the Clear Fork of the Trinity River in Tarrant County, Texas, USA. The lake is located approximately 10 miles (16 km) southwest of the center of Fort Worth, where the Clear Fork and the West Fork of the Trinity River join. The lake is impounded by the Benbrook Dam.
Pine Island is an island situated in the southern end of Lake Livingston, Texas, a man-made reservoir on the Trinity River. It is within the boundaries of San Jacinto County, Texas. Pine Island is a natural island formed when the Trinity River was dammed to form Lake Livingston. The island is 0.21 square miles in area.
Lewisville Lake is the second lake to impound the waters of the Elm Fork of the Trinity River in this area. The W.E. Callahan Construction Company completed the Garza Dam in 1927 at a cost of $5 million, which created Lake Dallas. The dam was 10,890 feet (3,320 m) long with a 567-foot (173 m) long service spillway.
Lake Weatherford is a lake located in Weatherford, Texas. [2] The lake stands to the north-east of the city, north of Hudson Oaks and Willow Park. [3] The Clear Fork of the Trinity River flows into the lake. [4]