Download or read book Development of the Lower Colorado River of Texas written by Lower Colorado River Authority and published by . This book was released on 1954* with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The development application and acceptance of a water quality model for the lower Colorado River Texas written by Norman Denny Johns and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Lower Colorado River Authority written by Lower Colorado River Authority. Development Department and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Future Water Resources Development in the Lower Colorado River Basin written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 20 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 The history and purpose of the Lower Colorado River Authority written by Guy Cummings Hill and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Development of the Lower Colorado River written by Bruce H. Mills and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Protection and Development of Lower Colorado River Basin written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 710 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 Protection and Development of Lower Colorado River Basin written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Protection and Development of Lower Colorado River Basin written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Protection and Development of the Lower Colorado River Basin written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Colorado River written by United States. Bureau of Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Protection and Development of Lower Colorado River Basin written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Future Water Resources Development in the Lower Colorado River Basin written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On plans of Department of Interior.