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The reservoir at the top of the mountain covers 528 acres (214 ha), with a dam that is 230 feet (70 m) high and 5,800 feet (1,800 m) long, the largest rock-fill dam ever built by TVA. The plant serves as an important element for peak power generation and grid balancing in the TVA system.
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).
A map of FM 2134 in 1961. The road preceded RE 11. Only RE 2, RE 8, and RE 11 roughly followed the course of pre-existing routes. Recreational Road 11 connects FM 1929 to a recreational area on the O.H. Ivie Reservoir. The highway begins at an intersection with FM 1929, south of the O. H. Ivie Reservoir, as a two-lane, paved road.
Caddo Lake; Calaveras Lake (Texas) Lake Casa Blanca; Cedar Creek Reservoir (Texas) Choke Canyon Reservoir; Lake Pat Cleburne; Coleto Creek Reservoir; Canyon Lake (Texas) Comanche Creek Reservoir; Lake Conroe; Lake Corpus Christi; Davy Crockett Lake (Fannin County, Texas) Lake Cypress Springs
Critics of the Marvin Nichols Reservoir fear the 66,000-acre project could decimate a habitat for little gain. Texas water planners insist this reservoir should be built, but opponents remain unswayed
Raccoon Mountain Pumped-Storage Plant — Raccoon Mountain Reservoir; on McNabb Branch but discharges into the Tennessee River; finished in 1978 by the TVA; Radnor Dam — Radnor Lake; on Otter Creek; built by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company in 1914, for watering steam locomotives and supplying water for shipped livestock
Medina Lake. Mackenzie Reservoir; Lake Marble Falls; Lake Marvin (Hemphill County, Texas) Lake McClellan (McClellan Reservoir) McGovern Lake, Hermann Park, Houston; Lake McQueeney; Lake McSpadden; Meadow Lake; Medina Lake; Lake Meredith; Lake Mexia; Millers Creek Reservoir; Lake Mineral Wells; Mitchell Lake; Lake Monticello; Moss Lake, Howard ...
Only one in 10,000 to 20,000 raccoons are born with the albino mutation, according to wildlife experts.The chances of actually seeing one, however, are only one in 750,000.