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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 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 ...
Lake Houston is a reservoir on the San Jacinto River, 15 miles (24 km) northeast of downtown Houston, Texas, United States. The reservoir is the primary municipal water supply for the city of Houston.
Brazoria County (/ b r ə ˈ z ɔːr i ə / brə-ZOR-ee-ə) is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.As of the 2020 census, the population of the county was 372,031. [1] The county seat is Angleton.