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The cracks were discovered after initial reports of an "explosion" at the dam, but of a spokesperson said the noise was likely rock at the dam cracking. A similar issue happened in 2014 with ...
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).
Completed in 1943 primarily as a flood control project, it was at the time the "largest rolled-earth fill dam in the world". [5] Only five times has the lake reached the dam's spillway at a height of 640 feet (200 m) above sea level: 1957, 1990, 2007, and twice in 2015. It takes its name from Denison, Texas, just downriver from the dam face.
At 9 a.m. Friday, town officials notified the Rutherford County Emergency Management office about the pending dam failure, saying water from the lake was expected to top the dam before 10 a.m.
Lake Gonzales was a reservoir on the Guadalupe River 4 miles (6 km) southeast of the town of Belmont in Gonzales County, Texas. The reservoir was formed in 1931 by the construction of a dam to provide hydroelectric power to the area. Management of the dam and lake was assumed by the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority on May 1, 1963.
On Friday, the weather service said that its damage survey team found evidence to confirm a brief, EF-0 tornado near UNT Frisco. Maximum winds were estimated at 85 mph, and the tornado’s path ...
A spillway, located south of the dam, protects the dam by releasing water when the lake level rises to 943 feet (287 m) above sea level. The dam is located near the Balcones Escarpment . The rocky canyons to the west of the escarpment can carry more water than the riverbeds of the plains to the east; this has caused problems with flash flooding ...
Authorities received a 911 call shortly before midnight Monday with reports of an unconscious person floating in the water downstream from the Mansfield Dam, in the 14111-14125 block of Low Water ...