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Lady Bird Lake (formerly, and still colloquially referred to as Town Lake) is a river-like reservoir on the Colorado River in Austin, Texas, United States. The City of Austin created the reservoir in 1960 as a cooling pond for a new city power plant.
The three high-profile projects by New York-based Related Companies are in a rapidly emerging waterfront area that is transforming the south shores of Lady Bird Lake across from downtown.
Longhorn Dam is a dam crossing the Colorado River in Austin, Texas, United States, where it creates Lady Bird Lake.Completed in 1960, the dam was built by the City of Austin as the last in a chain of Colorado River dams in central Texas begun during the Great Depression.
The 118-acre South Central Waterfront District is bounded by Lady Bird Lake on the north, South First Street on the west, Blunn Creek to the east and East Riverside Drive and East Bouldin Creek on ...
Tom Miller Dam is a dam located on the Colorado River within the city limits of Austin, Texas, United States.The City of Austin, aided by funds from the Public Works Administration, constructed the dam for the purpose of flood control and for generating hydroelectric power.
Lady Bird Lake, rechristened in 2007 to honor the first lady, is in downtown Austin. Bordered by 10 miles of well-maintained trails, it's a well-liked hub for bicyclists, runners, and walkers. ...
The Town Lake Gazebo is an open-sided structure with a curving hyperbolic paraboloid roof supported by eight piers rising from a slightly elevated foundation. [2] The reinforced concrete piers stand at the corners of an octagonal footprint and are faced with a stone veneer of rusticated limestone masonry.
Town Lake was renamed for Lady Bird Johnson, but what about the five other Austin-area lakes on the Colorado River?