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Website. www.oasis-austin.com. The Oasis on Lake Travis is a restaurant on the western edge of Austin, Texas. The restaurant promotes itself as the "Sunset Capital of Texas" with its terraced views looking West over Lake Travis. [1] The thirty thousand square foot restaurant sits on a bluff 450 feet above the lake and is the largest outdoor ...
Generating Station Oak Park Heights, Minnesota: 511 1 Xcel Energy: 1967 -- Closing 2028 Clay Boswell Energy Center Cohasset, Minnesota: 1,072.5 4 (2 retired, 2 operational) Minnesota Power [5] U1: 1958 – CLOSED 2018 U2: 1960 – CLOSED 2018 U3: 1973 -- Closing 2030 [6] U4: 1980 -- Closing 2035 [6] Hibbing Power Plant Hibbing, Minnesota: 30.5 3
Max. depth. 60 ft (18 m) Surface elevation. 555 ft (169 m) Lake Walter E. Long (also known as Decker Lake) [1] is a reservoir on Decker Creek in Austin, Texas. It was officially impounded in 1967 and provides cooling water for a power plant that produces electricity from petroleum -based fuels. The dam and the lake are managed by the City of ...
Prairie Island is one of two nuclear power plants in Minnesota (the other being Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant in Monticello). Prairie Island has attracted controversy in the early 21st century for its operator Xcel Energy 's decision to store nuclear waste in large steel casks on-site. As this area is a floodplain of the Mississippi, many ...
The Seaholm Power Plant is a historic former power station located on the north shore of Lady Bird Lake in Downtown Austin, Texas. Opened in 1951, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark. The power plant ceased operation in 1996, and the facility and site were later ...
The Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant is a nuclear power plant located in Monticello, Minnesota, along the Mississippi River. The site, which began operating in 1971, has a single nuclear reactor (boiling water reactor) of the General Electric BWR-3 design generating 671 MWe. The plant is owned by Xcel Energy and operated by Northern States ...
Elk River Station is an energy-from-waste plant operating in Elk River, Minnesota that generates 35 to 42 megawatts of electrical power. The site was originally built as a coal and oil -fired facility in 1950, then construction began on a nuclear power plant (boiling water reactor) in 1959. [1] The nuclear reactor was small (22 MW [1]) and only ...
75 ft (23 m) Surface elevation. 492 ft (150 m) above sea level. Lake Austin, formerly Lake McDonald, is a water reservoir on the Colorado River in Austin, Texas. The reservoir was formed in 1939 by the construction of Tom Miller Dam by the Lower Colorado River Authority. Lake Austin is one of the seven Highland Lakes created by the LCRA, and is ...