Author: Lower Colorado River AuthorityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colorado River (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Development of the Lower Colorado River of Texas
Author: Lower Colorado River AuthorityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colorado River (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
The development, application, and acceptance of a water quality model for the lower Colorado River, Texas
Author: Norman Denny JohnsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colorado River (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Untold Story of the Lower Colorado River Authority
Author: John WilliamsPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623493412
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Arguably, no other institution has transformed the heart of Texas like the Lower Colorado River Authority. Born in the Great Depression of the 1930s, LCRA built a chain of dams and brought predictability to the cycles of extreme droughts and floods that had long plagued Austin and other communities. It also brought hydroelectric power—and with that, modern-day civilization—to the hard-scrabble regions of Central and South Texas. With those achievements, and the support of powerful political leaders like Lyndon Johnson, LCRA for years was touted as one of the state’s major success stories. But LCRA has never been a stranger to controversy, and while it continues to provide much of the energy and water that fuels the economic engine of Austin and beyond, most people know very little about LCRA. In this book, readers will learn about the forces of nature and politics that combined to create LCRA; the colorful personalities who operated, supported, or fought with the agency; its spectacular successes, periodic blunders, and occasional failures; and its evolution into one of the largest public power organizations in Texas. To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.
The Lower Colorado River Authority
Author: Lower Colorado River Authority. Development DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Goodbye to a River
Author: John GravesPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307773353
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth. Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe voyage. As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumn weather, he muses upon old blood feuds of the region and violent skirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courage and cowardice and deceit that shaped both the river’s people and the land during frontier times and later. Nearly half a century after its initial publication, Goodbye to a River is a true American classic, a vivid narrative about an exciting journey and a powerful tribute to a vanishing way of life and its ever-changing natural environment.
Future Water Resources Development in the Lower Colorado River Basin
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Flood to Faucet
Author: Walter Ewing LongPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colorado River
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The history and purpose of the Lower Colorado River Authority
Author: Guy Cummings HillDevelopment of the Lower Colorado River
Author: Bruce H. MillsProtection and Development of Lower Colorado River Basin
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Irrigation and ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description