Download or read book The Austin Dam Disaster of 1900 written by Elizabeth H. Clare and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Austin Dam Disaster of 1900 recreates the era of Gay Nineties Austin, then--as now--a city on the rise and on the make. In 1891, at the behest of ambitious city fathers, the little city of just 15,000 people gambled its future on a project of breathtaking size--a massive hydroelectric dam across the Colorado River. This book follows the epic construction project and the brief golden era of the pleasure resort at Lake McDonald. Though troubled and controversial from the get-go, the dam embodied all of Austin's dreams. Then, on Friday, April 6, 1900, it began to rain . . .

Download or read book The Untold Story of the Lower Colorado River Authority written by John Williams and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Report on the Dam and Water Power Development at Austin Texas written by Daniel Webster Mead and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Austin Dam written by Thomas Ulvan Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Design of a Hydro electric Plant on the Colorado River at Austin Texas written by Daniel Parker Pace and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Damming the Colorado written by John A. Adams (Jr.) and published by TAMU Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before there was a Lower Colorado River Authority, the Colorado River cut across Central Texas free and unfettered by artificial structures. But the river could be unpredictable and dangerous. In the early years of the twentieth century there were numerous attempts to harness and develop the river. Some Texans desperately wanted private enterprise to achieve that goal, but the job proved to be larger than the resources of the private sector. What emerged in the mid-1930s was a cooperative federal-state approach that created controversy yet results. John Adams details the dynamics in the struggle of private interests and public institutions to cooperate in the taming of the Colorado. The Great Depression further constricted private capital available for large-scale reclamation projects, but the New Deal entered into the effort. With seasoned Texas politicians in Washington, millions of dollars in federal funds were channeled into the Lower Colorado River Authority. The Lower Colorado River Authority resulted in a system of dams, reservoirs, and hydroelectric power stations. Intensive research in primary documents, including four sets of presidential papers, and in state and national archives has enabled Adams to trace the development of the accord and relationships between private utility interests, conservationists, and politicians that finally dammed the Colorado and further cemented the precedent for federally funded water and reclamation projects in the West.

Download or read book Report for City of Austin Texas on the Construction of a Low Dam in the Colorado River written by Austin (Tex.). Construction Engineering Department and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flood to Faucet written by Walter Ewing Long and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Goodbye to a River written by John Graves and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Revised Ordinances of the City of Austin written by Austin (Tex.). and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Lakes in the Austin Area written by Austin Chamber of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lake Austin Dam Jefferson County Ohio written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Pittsburgh District and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Austin Dam written by Thomas Ulvan Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Austin Dam Failure written by Frank Pape McKibben and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Austin Dam Contract 1938 written by Austin (Tex.) and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dams and Control Works written by United States. Bureau of Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A description of representative storage and diversion dams and high-pressure reservoir outlet works constructed by the Bureau of Reclamtion.