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TEXAS ALMANAC.-1945-1946.
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Lake Texoma, impounded by the Denison Dam on the Red River, is one of the larger reservoirs
in the United States.tion of twelve reservoirs, one of which, Pos-
sum Kingdom Dam, was completed in 1940 at
a cost of $7,945,000, primarily for flood con-
trol and power.
The Flood Control Act passed early in
1945. contained a provision for $15,000,000 for
construction of the second of the Brazos
series of dams. This will be Whitney Dam,
to have a capacity of 721,000 acre-feet, on the
Brazos between Hill and Bosque Counties.
Work will be begun under the postwar pro-
gram. The reservoir will be for purposes
similar to those of Lake Possum Kingdom.
There are five other dams planned on the
main stream of the Brazos. These are the
Bob Baskin project in Knox and Stonewall
Counties, located above Possum Kingdom
Lake, and four others below Possum King-
dom, as follows: Inspiration Point Dam,
Palo Pinto County; Turkey Creek, Palo Pinto
County; De Cordova Bend, Hood County; Bee
Mountain, Bosque and Johnson Counties. On
tributaries of the Brazos the following proj-
ects are planned: Breckenridge or Crystal
Springs Dam on Clear Fork, Stephens Coun-
ty: Aquilla Lake on Aquilla Creek at McLen-
nan-Hill County line; a dam on the Bosque
River near McLennan and Bosque County
line; Miller Springs Dam, Leon River, Bell
County; Youngsport Dam on Lampasas River,
Bell County; dams on both the north and
south San Gabriel Rivers, Williamson Coun-
ty, and on Navasota River. in Brazos. Rob-
ertson and Leon Counties. Most of the pro-
posed structures will be of multiple purpose-
flood control, irrigation and power.
In the watershed of the Brazos and its
tributaries are a number of reservoirs, large-
ly for municipal purpose, including Lake
Cisco and several smaller reservoirs in East-
land County, Lake Fort Phantom Hill in
Jones and Taylor Counties. Lake Abilene in
Taylor County, Lake Sweetwater in Nolan
County, L ke Mineral Wells in Parker Coun-
ty and Lake Waco in McLennan County. (See
list of reservoirs on p. 173.)This district is a public corporation char-
tered by the state and holding its properties
for the state. The Brazos Valley has been
subject to the most disastrous floods in Texas
river history. Its wide drainage basin in the
upland country and rapid discharge of cur-
rent into that part of the channel which
traverses the Coastal Plain makes it pecu-
liarly susceptible to floods, especially in its
middle and lower courses. (See p. 139.)
Colorado Basin.-In most respects the Colo-
rado Basin is a parallel of the Brazos. Rising
on the Great Plains on the Texas-New Mexico
border, its upper reaches are through a re-
gion of erratic rainfall and characteristically
rapid runoff of floodwaters. Descending
through a series of gorges in the Burnet-
Llano area and upper part of Travis County,
it crosses the Balcones Fault line and enters
the Coastal Plain at Austin. The Lower
Colorado River Authority, an agency of the
State of Texas, created in 1934 to conserve
water for any useful purpose, has constructed
during the last few years two large dams and
one small structure in the gorges above
Austin, and reconstructed the old Austin Dam.
The first of these, starting upstream, is
the Buchanan Dam, located about ten miles
from Burnet. It is two miles in length and
is one of the longest concrete dams in the
world. It is 140.5 feet high and creates a
lake thirty-two miles long and eight miles
wide which impounds 992,475 acre-feet of
water. The Inks Dam is three miles below
Buchanan and was built primarily to produce
electric power by reusing the water dis-
charged from the Buchanan Dam. The Inks
reservoir has 16.200 acre-feet capacity.
The Marshall Ford Dam (renamed Mans-
field Dam) is the key to flood structure of
the entire series of dams. It is the fourth
largest masonry structure In the world, be-
ing 270 feet high and 6,810 feet long. It forms
a lake sixty-five miles long and 8.5 miles
wide in places and impounds Lake Travis
with a capacity of 1,963,000 acre-feet. The~p~-y i
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