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The lake and bayou comprise an internationally protected wetland under the Ramsar Convention and includes one of the largest flooded cypress forests in the United States. Caddo is one of Texas's few non-oxbow natural lakes. It was artificially altered by the addition of a dam in the 1900s. [2]
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Texas.. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).
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 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.
Longhorn Dam is located at 30.2504°, -97.7135° (WGS 84 datum), with a full water level at 428 feet (130 m) above sea level. The reservoir impoundment length is 5.75 miles (9.3 km), creating Lady Bird Lake (formerly called Town Lake), a freshwater lake with a surface area of 471 acres (191 ha). Water release through the dam varies with ...
Is Possum Kingdom a man-made or natural lake? Possum Kingdom Lake is a man-made reservoir built in the 1940s. Located at the lake is the Morris Sheppard Dam, named after the Texas senator who ...
At the dam, the original creek bed was at 451 feet (137 m), making the dam roughly 137 ft (42 m) tall. The dam's spillway is located at around 560 feet (170 m) above sea level . This gives it a flood capacity of at least 425,500 acre-feet (524,800,000 m 3 ), including an allowance for the build-up of sediment in the lake's bottom.
Canyon Lake is a reservoir on the Guadalupe River in the Texas Hill Country in the United States. Canyon Lake is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir formed on the Guadalupe River in Comal County by Canyon Dam, which is located about sixteen miles northwest of New Braunfels. The dam, lake, and all adjacent property are managed by the U.S ...