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The Old River Control Structure is a complex containing the original low-sill [6] and overbank [7] structures, as well as the auxiliary structure that was constructed after the low-sill structure was damaged during the Mississippi River Flood of 1973. The complex also contains a navigation lock and the Sidney A. Murray Jr. Hydroelectric Station.
The water is primarily a soft, sodium bicarbonate type with a dissolved-solids concentration of about 220 milligrams per liter in southern Louisiana. Groundwater use in 1980 for public supply averaged 121 million gallons per day, serving over 700,000 people in southern Louisiana. In southwestern Mississippi, where the aquifer system is also a ...
Texas Water Development Board. Coordinates: 30°16′46″N 97°44′22″W. The Texas Water Development Board is an agency of the government of Texas with authority over water development in the state. The Board appoints directors for regional water development agencies such as the Lower Neches Valley Authority.
The Main Building at the University of Texas at Austin (left), Lovett Hall at Rice University (middle), and the Academic Building at Texas A&M University (right) There are 226 colleges and universities in the State of Texas that are listed under the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.
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).
The wetlands of Louisiana are water-saturated coastal and swamp regions of southern Louisiana, often called 'Bayou'. The Louisiana coastal zone stretches from the border of Texas to the Mississippi line [1] and comprises two wetland-dominated ecosystems, the Deltaic Plain of the Mississippi River (unit 1, 2, and 3) and the closely linked ...
8,575 acres (34.70 km 2) Surface elevation. 171 ft (52 m) [1] Cross Lake (French: Lac de la Croix) is a man-made 8,575-acre (35 km 2) lake located near Shreveport, Louisiana. The reservoir provides the water supply for the City of Shreveport. Moss covered cypress trees line the banks of this open lake popular for fishing and recreational ...
August 17, 2024 at 7:31 PM. All households receiving water from the city of Bloomington are under a precautionary boil water order after the city utility violated a drinking water standard on ...