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The reservoir was created in 1953 when the City of Houston built the dam to impound a reservoir to replace Sheldon Lake, then the primary source of water for the city. The city sold Sheldon Lake to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for use as a waterfowl sanctuary and public fishing site.
The federal government constructed the reservoir on Carpenter's Bayou in 1942 in order to support growing war-related industries along the Houston Ship Channel. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department acquired the reservoir in 1952 to provide a refuge for migratory waterfowl, a public fishing lake and a fish hatchery. It opened in 1955 as the ...
Calaveras Lake (Texas) Lake Casa Blanca; Cedar Creek Reservoir (Texas) Choke Canyon Reservoir; Lake Pat Cleburne; Coleto Creek Reservoir; Canyon Lake (Texas) Comanche Creek Reservoir; Lake Conroe; Lake Corpus Christi; Davy Crockett Lake (Fannin County, Texas) Lake Cypress Springs
Lake Alan Henry The following is a list of reservoirs and lakes in the U.S. state of Texas . Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all.
Lake Houston, an 11,854-acre (4,797-hectare) reservoir located approximately 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Downtown, was created by damming the San Jacinto River in the 1950s to create a dependable, long-term supply of drinking water. [21] The lake is owned and operated by the City of Houston. [22]
Sheldon Lake was established by the federal government in 1943 through the construction of a dam on its tributary, Carpenters Bayou. Its original purpose was to provide a source of fresh water to Houston and industries operating on the Houston Ship Channel. [2] The City of Houston began managing the reservoir following World War II.
Sims Bayou is a 23-mile (37 km) bayou that flows within Houston in a primarily west to east movement. Its origin is in Southwest Houston near Missouri City, Texas, and terminates in Manchester, Houston approximately seven miles east of Downtown Houston, where it feeds Buffalo Bayou as a major tributary. Unlike all other major Houston bayous ...
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