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The San Jacinto River Authority manages the San Jacinto River and its contributing watershed, which is located in Southeast Texas. The Texas Legislature established the authority in 1937 as the San Jacinto River Conservation and Reclamation District. In 1951, the legislature gave the SJRA its current name.
The Battle of San Jacinto was fought near the rain-swollen Buffalo Bayou in what is now Harris County during the 1836 Texas Revolution. The decisive victory gave rise to the Republic of Texas. The site is now a state historic park. The park is the site of the San Jacinto Monument. In October 1994, flooding along the San Jacinto River led to the ...
The controlling authority of the lake is the San Jacinto River Authority. The City of Houston owns a two-thirds interest in the lake; the SJRA owns one-third. The lake extends about 21 miles (34 km) in length and covers 20,118 acres (81.41 km 2 ) with 5,000 acres (20 km 2 ) in Sam Houston National Forest and capacity of 430,260 acre-feet ...
River authorities in the U.S. state of Texas are public agencies established by the state legislature and given authority to develop and manage the waters of the state. These authorities are given powers to conserve, store, control, preserve, utilize, and distribute the waters of a designated geographic region for the benefit of the public.
San Jacinto River may refer to: San Jacinto River (California) San Jacinto River (Texas) This page was last edited on 30 December 2019, at 00:52 (UTC). Text is ...
The present-day location of this ferry can trace its origins back to 1822 when it was constructed by Nathaniel Lynch just below the confluence of the San Jacinto River and the Buffalo Bayou and was known as Lynch's Ferry. [6] The ferry was used by the Republic of Texas troops fighting Mexican forces in the Battle of San Jacinto April 1836. [6]
The San Jacinto River is a 42-mile-long (68 km) [5] river in Riverside County, California. The river's headwaters are in Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument . [ 6 ] The lower portion of the 765-square-mile (1,980 km 2 ) watershed is urban and agricultural land.
The San Jacinto River Protective Committee arranged filings of four lawsuits against the MWD by various water users along the San Jacinto River. The four plaintiffs were the Nuevo Water Company, the Hemet Packing Company (owners of a 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) ranch in Lakeview), the Centinela Ranch near San Jacinto, and Leland Houk, who had a ranch ...