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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 used for flood control, electrical power generation, and ...
Named after Robert Thomas Miller, a former Mayor of Austin, the dam forms Lake Austin, one of the Texas Highland Lakes. The dam began operating in 1940 and is located at the site of the city's two previous dams, each of which were destroyed during major floods and shared the same name, Austin Dam. [ 2 ]
Mount Bonnell / b ə ˈ n ɛ l /, also known as Covert Park, is a prominent point alongside the Lake Austin portion of the Colorado River in Austin, Texas. It has been a popular tourist destination since the 1850s. [1] [2] The mount provides a vista for viewing the city of Austin, Lake Austin, and the surrounding hills. [3]
Mansfield Dam, the dam completed in 1941 that forms Lake Travis (the beginning of Lake Austin and an early low-water crossing is seen below the dam) LCRA operates six hydroelectric dams along the Colorado River in Central Texas that provide a source of renewable energy and form six lakes collectively known as the Texas Highland Lakes:
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.
Lake Austin is also the name of the locality surrounding it. Lake Austin is an evaporation basin for an arheic internal drainage system covering an area of 13,750 square kilometres (5,310 sq mi). The lake itself lies in a basin covering 770 square kilometres (300 sq mi), or 440 square kilometres (170 sq mi) excluding the many islands.
The town is located south of Cue on an island in Lake Austin and for this reason was also known as Lake Austin and The Island Lake Austin. [1] [2] The lake and the town are both named after surveyor Robert Austin, who was the first European to explore and chart the area. Austin initially named the lake the Great Inland Marsh but the name was ...
The other reservoirs on the Colorado River are Lake Buchanan, Inks Lake, Lake Marble Falls, Lake Travis, Lake Austin, and Lady Bird Lake. Lake LBJ along with Inks Lake and Lake Marble Falls are pass-through lakes for Lake Buchanan and Lake Travis. There is no room in Lake LBJ for additional water storage, and water that comes in must go out.