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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 ...
Brazos River in North Central Texas. Goodbye to a River is a book by John Graves, published in 1960. [1] It is a "semi-historical" account of a canoe trip made by the author during the fall of 1957 down a stretch of the Brazos River in North Central Texas, between Possum Kingdom Dam and Lake Whitney. The book presents both the author's account ...
Gabčíkovo Dam on river Danube; Liptovská Mara on river Váh; Orava (reservoir) Sĺňava on river Váh; Starina reservoir; Tajchy artificial water reservoirs in the Štiavnica Mountains; Veľká Domaša on river Ondava; Zemplínska Šírava on river Laborec
Dams of the Brazos River Authority — located on the Brazos River in central Texas. Pages in category "Brazos River Authority dams" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
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.
Blue dots on a map circulating widely on social media show weirs that are still in place, not dams removed before Valencia flooding.
The book discusses major water projects implemented and proposed during the Russian Empire and Soviet Union in Central Asia. Pipe Dreams received acclaim from critics, who recognized it as a substantial contribution to the environmental history of Central Asia. The book is based on Peterson's PhD dissertation written at Harvard University. [1]