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Aerial shot of Lake Travis. Lake Travis is a reservoir on the Colorado River in central Texas in the United States.It is named in honor of William B. Travis. [1]Serving principally as a flood-control reservoir, Lake Travis' historical minimum to maximum water height change is nearly 100 feet. [2]
The concrete gravity dam with embankment wings and saddle dikes was designed to control flooding; to store 1.4 km 3 (369 billion US gallons) of water; and to generate hydroelectric power (108 megawatts). The Spillway Elevation is 714 feet (218 m) above Mean Sea Level (MSL). LCRA begins to open floods gates when water reaches 681 feet above MSL.
The line will connect the controversial development to a water supply drawn from Lake Travis. The new water line is meant to help prevent groundwater depletion near what some in the area call the ...
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 ...
Meanwhile, in the West, "benign weather and gradually warming temperatures are forecast, the NWS said. Through Dec. 9, the western half of the U.S. is forecast to have above normal or near normal ...
The Travis County sheriff's office has opened an investigation into a potential drowning in Lake Travis late Saturday morning. A person was pulled from the lake near Lago Vista just before 11:30 a ...
Lake Dam Year completed Managing Authority Lake area (acres) Lake length (mi) Max lake width (ft) Lake volume (acre-ft) Dam length (ft) Dam height (ft) Lake Buchanan: Buchanan Dam: 1938 Lower Colorado River Authority: 22,452 30.65 26,000 (4.92mi) 880,356 10,988 145.5 Inks Lake: Inks Dam: 1938 Lower Colorado River Authority: 777 4.2 3,000 13,668 ...
Lake Travis rose 25 feet in 24 hours and water flowed into it at a rate of 375,000 cfs. [12] The flooding raised the turbidity of City of Austin's water supply (which is sourced exclusively from the Colorado River [13]) to untenable levels, forcing the city to issue a seven-day boil water notice [14] [15]