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The Brazos River (/ ˈ b r æ z ə s / ⓘ BRAZ-əs, Spanish:), called the Río de los Brazos de Dios (translated as "The River of the Arms of God") by early Spanish explorers, is the 14th-longest river in the United States at 1,280 miles (2,060 km) from its headwater source at the head of Blackwater Draw, Roosevelt County, New Mexico [2] to its mouth at the Gulf of Mexico with a 45,000-square ...
The De Cordova Bend Dam is a man-made dam on the Brazos River in Hood County, Texas, United States, controlled by the Brazos River Authority. De Cordova Bend Dam forms the 8,300-acre (34 km 2) Lake Granbury. The dam is so named because of the clockwise almost-complete loop in the Brazos River named De Cordova Bend after Jacob De Cordova. The ...
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Location of Lake Granbury, Texas. Lake Granbury is a North Texas reservoir near Granbury, Texas.It was created in 1969 and is one of three lakes damming the Brazos River.. Lake Granbury is contained by the De Cordova Bend Dam and is a long, narrow lake, encompassed by 103 miles (221 km) of shoreline.
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).
The Brazos River Authority manages dams that create three reservoirs on the Brazos River and its tributaries: Lake Granbury on the Brazos River; Lake Limestone on the Navasota River; Possum Kingdom Lake on the Brazos River; The Authority will also manage the dam that will create Allens Creek Reservoir on Allens Creek, in the event it is ever built.
The construction of the dam started in May 1947 and the Brazos River was impounded in December 1951. The construction of the dam's powerhouse began in April 1951 and was completed in June 1953. [ 5 ] After a record-breaking drought in Texas during the 1950s , there was an emphasis on reservoirs serving a secondary purpose as water storage ...
Lake Waco was formed from the merging of the North and South Bosque River, each being the major tributaries of the larger Brazos River. The spillway of the dam again outflows into the Bosque river, before joining with the Brazos. [7] The average surface area of Lake Waco is 7,712 acres, [8] surrounded by over 60 miles of shoreline. [9]