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Canyon Lake is a reservoir on the Guadalupe River in the Texas Hill Country in the United States.Canyon Lake is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir formed on the Guadalupe River in Comal County by Canyon Dam, which is located about sixteen miles northwest of New Braunfels.
Impoundment of the lake began in 1964, and the lake was filled to its conservation level in 1968. The dam was built by the Tencon Corporation of Fort Worth, Texas. The United States Army Corps of Engineers controls the physical operations; and water in the lake is managed by the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers visited areas devastated by the Palisades fire in Malibu to determine the "scale and scope" of the cleanup effort. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
Since Feb. 17, the Army Corps of Engineers has been conducting discharges from Lake Okeechobee to the St. Lucie River and Caloosahatchee River. The flow rate of water from the lake is creating the ...
On October 7, 2007, the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority opened the 64-acre (260,000 m 2) Canyon Lake Gorge, under a lease from the Army Corps of Engineers, with limited public tours. The three-hour tours are booked six months in advance.
Lake Powell, impounded by Glen Canyon Dam, is the second-largest reservoir in the U.S. This is a list of largest reservoirs in the United States , including all artificial lakes with a capacity greater than or equal to 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3 ).
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Mast also complained about the Army Corps lowering the Orlando-area Chain of Lakes by discharging water into Lake O faster than releasing it east and west, so Lake O's level has only dropped a ...