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Plano is part of the North Texas Municipal Water District, headquartered in Wylie, Texas. Lake Lavon is the district's principal source of raw water. Plano's water distribution system includes: 10 elevated towers; 12 ground storage tanks; 54.5 million-gallon water storage capacity; 5 pump stations; 225 million-gallon daily pumping capacity
Wylie is a city and northeastern suburb of Dallas, that was once solely located in Collin County, but now extends into neighboring Dallas and Rockwall counties in the U.S. state of Texas. It is located on State Route 78 about 24 miles (39 km) northeast of central Dallas and centrally located between nearby Lavon Lake and Lake Ray Hubbard .
Lavon Lake is a freshwater reservoir located in southeast Collin County, Texas, on the East Fork of the Trinity River near Wylie, off State Highway 78. [1] It is commonly called Lake Lavon for commercial and recreational purposes, but Lavon Lake is its official name according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The North Texas Municipal Water District is permitted to take up to 197,000 acre feet of water from the pumping station each year. That pumping station serves about 219,000 people in North Texas.
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).
2001 - Shops at Willow Bend in business. 2002 - Dallas Area Rapid Transit light rail begins operating; Downtown Plano station opens. [2]2009 - Phil Dyer becomes mayor. [2]2010 - Population: city 259,841; [10] megaregion 19,728,244.
Murphy is located in southern Collin County, within the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.Situated midway between Plano and Wylie on FM 544, Murphy is 2 miles (3 km) south of the famous Southfork Ranch.
Wylie was named after J. J. Wylie, an early settler, who moved Taylor County in 1880. The first settlers farmed in the Wylie area beginning in 1881, but Wylie as a community did not develop until 1902, when John H. Vance arrived from Austin, Texas. Vance purchased several acres of land southwest of Abilene, and built the first general store ...